As I do my usual cleaning, I tackle a little organization too, and come across some of the resources the hospital gave us when Andy was diagnosed. I spent a good ½ hour reading through one book in particular, “The Book of Hope”. I know the intentions of this book are nothing but good but…
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It has been a while since our last post and I am happy to report it is because we are happy and busy. Andy is officially in the maintenance phase and is holding his counts steady so far! This is great because he can have a birthday party!!!!!!. Can you believe my little man turns…
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We are getting closer. We just finished week 2 of some pretty heavy chemo, but every day I watched the poison get injected into my baby I would breathe a sigh of relief because we are that much closer to maintenance. Long term maintenance is still chemo but it is lighter with much fewer trips…
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We did it. The Sears Great Canadian Run is over and it was an event we will always remember. Our smiles for Andy community raised $40,000. But that is not even the best part. We helped spread awareness about childhood cancer and helped start one of the very few events that run in the honor…
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A big milestone for the Smiles for Andy relay team was reached this week. An amazing $25000 in pledges was raised. There was some corporate sponsorship involved but mostly this money came from you, our friends and family. We are completely blown away by the generosity of so many people. It was almost too much…
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This has been a rough week. It is Andy’s last week on steroids before he gets a break, but I don’t know what it is with him and steroids, he just doesn’t work right with them. The last couple of days he has been screaming for snacks but not wanting anything you offer him. He…
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It has been an exciting last couple of weeks. We are three weeks into the Delayed Intensification phase of treatment and just now we are starting to see Andy bottoming out. His white blood cell count has dropped to well below normal, which indicates his immune system has become compromised and he will have a…
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Andy recently finished up the Interim Maintenance portion of his treatment and I am happy to report that he rocked it. During Interim Maintenance Andy’s blood counts never dropped until the very, very end. He had no fevers, nausea or weird side effects and actually gained some strength, hair and personality. Laugh if you will…
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Since our last post Andy has been doing really well. I believe he was previously still fighting off some virus. Now his energy levels are up and his mood is good and he has been handling his chemo treatments really well. As odd as this may sound I am a little sad this phase of…
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Well, I think Andy has finally depleted his body. The last week has been pretty rough, Andy has been terribly nauseated, fatigued and irritable. He has lost any desire to really leave the house, or really eat anything that is not a McDonald’s hash brown. Woo hoo McDonald’s (insert sarcasm here). He also caught some…
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