As planned, Eric was admitted to hospital this afternoon. It was one of our smoothest admissions ever. Not that it's usually challenging to be admitted, just slow. Eric's all tucked into his comfy bed and has started on his Lego. He has already had his first dose of the IV chemo and is right now taking his first dose of the oral therapy, not the most recent one (Selinexor), but the previous one (Venetoclax).
When we saw Eric's doctor this afternoon, we did get some additional results from his bone marrow biopsy last week. I can't categorize it as good or bad, in light of where we thought we were headed 2 weeks ago (the good news). The donor cells are 21%. Obviously, this is not as good as the 75% we had heard 2 weeks ago from the same test completed on peripheral blood, versus bone marrow. However, it is higher than it was at his last bone marrow biopsy on Jan 6 where it was 11% and, as his dr reminds me, he still has donor cells and that is worth celebrating. Right now the most urgent problem is the blasts I mentioned a few days ago, which is what we're attempting to tackle with this current hospitalization and round of treatment. For now, we focus on that, and worry about next steps later.
Prior to attending the hospital this afternoon, Eric was able to go on his class swimming field trip. He was SO HAPPY! He played in the wave pool with friends for a bit, took a spin on the waterslide, spent a lot of time on the diving boards and finished up on the rope swing. We showed everyone at the hospital the pictures of him jumping off the diving board and they were all suitably impressed with him jumping fearlessly from 2m.
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