Susan here..
Well - Nathan's platelets didn't hit the magic number but his doctor decided he should start chemo anyway. After waiting around for results from his EKG and Echocardiogram we finally got started. His EKG showed some changes and so he was given a medicine to protect his heart and one of his chemo drugs was administrated all at once instead of over 6 hours. We got such a late start that we didn't get out until almost 5:30 after arriving at 9:00 - so it was a LONG day.
Nathan is pretty wiped out but he was very good today. He told me several times he didn't want to be at the clinic all day but he didn't fuss about it. His stiches are much much better so that is a very good thing.
Tomorrow Luke will go with Nathan and he will have a bone marrow aspiration. Everyone expects that his bone marrow is pretty clear but it will be good to know for sure.
This would be his last round of chemo if he stays on plan but it is likely that he will need additional chemo to shrink his tumor further. He will have a cat scan in a few weeks and then we'll figure out if he can have surgery
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