Eric and I visited the clinic yesterday. Yes, on a Tuesday! It is not his doctor's regular clinic day, but our Nurse Practitioner had us come in for a count check before heading out to camping/waterslides. The bad news, his platelets and ANC have both dropped since last week. Actually his ANC/Neutrophils (germ fighting white blood cells) are basically non-existent at only 0.1. The good news is that they are still letting us go camping and to the waterslides! Our Nurse Clinician drew this picture for Eric:
The team still believes the drop in blood counts is a result of the most recent treatment and are planning to wait for his counts to recover before starting the next round. We have to be prepared for the next round to have a similar effect as well and hopefully that won't impact our summer too much. Camping prep now includes packing a thermometer and knowing where the closest hospital is, but we get to go camping for the first time in more than 1.5 years!!!
Last Friday, I took the kids to The Outdoor Experience at the Aldergrove Community Center and they loved it. They thought it was a pretty amazing way to kick off summer vacation (after the previous day of pouring rain!) though Eric did get stung by a wasp x2!!! It was the first time he'd ever been stung and luckily there was no reaction beyond it hurting. I don't have many pics because we were busy playing, but here are the kids in the lazy river:
We're back at clinic next week. Since his counts are low, we have to go every week for now :(
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