Today is a very important day. It is Eric's 10th birthday! Double Digits! He is SO excited! He's having a couple friends over to play in the backyard pool and we rented a small bouncy castle as well. For dinner we're going to Boston Pizza with Granny, Uncle Dave, Auntie Jenny and Uncle Jay. Eric's current favourite is Boston Pizza's Bugs & Cheese. But first, we must have chocolate chip pancakes in the shape of the number 10. I made the pancakes but Eric did the decorating himself with whip cream and raspberries and blueberries from the garden!
Yesterday, Eric did have to go into the clinic for a check up, even though he was just discharged on Tuesday. His doctor wanted to make sure he had everything he needed for a successful birthday. His platelets had dropped off from Tuesday and were low, but since we are back on Monday, we probably could have held off until then, if it wasn't Eric's bday weekend. With the bouncy castle, trampoline, etc his doctor wanted him loaded up on platelets and then we don't have to worry about ending up in the ER from a non stop bleed. With the blood transfusion on Tuesday, his hemoglobin is actually in the normal range and it's been a long time since we've seen that. Eric is about 3 weeks out from the end of his last cycle of chemo so this is a bit of a rebound from the chemo suppressing the counts. Unfortunately, his counts wouldn't get much higher than this, even without the chemo suppression, because his messed up bone marrow just can't produce enough normal cells. They also won't have the chance to try, since Eric is starting a new round of treatment on Monday. We will be in the clinic everyday next week to receive the IV chemotherapy, but at least we don't have to stay inpatient!
Eric's doctor and Child Life gave him an early birthday present yesterday in the form of a big Lego set. It was 1000 pieces and he still had it finished by 4pm, and that included a 45 min drive home from the hospital in the middle of his build.
Last thing. Remember last week when I said that I was donating blood this week? And then my week was completely derailed by a hospital stay? Well I still managed to donate blood, and I dragged Chuck along with me! We went to the Surrey Blood Services center because the timing didn't work for a local pop up blood clinic. It's really close, just off 152 right over the bridge. Anyhow, they had a sign that said today your blood donation will take 45 minutes. Well, I was done in 35 and that included waiting for 10 minutes with the snacks after my donation. You have time to donate blood! Make your appointment today at blood.ca! This was my 10th donation and I even got a little pin :)
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