Update from Cynthia: round four of chemo is about to start

Dear friends,

We have had a good week at home. Harry is doing so well. He is super active, and is now really pulling up to standing all over the house and can walk on his own pushing a little cart.

We went to the Cancer Clinic on Tuesday and his counts were good. So we are on track to start round 4 of chemo on Friday. We will go to clinic in the morning and they will draw a blood sample to check his counts and then we'll be admitted from there. His hemoglobin was low on Tuesday - 76 - so he might need a red blood cell top-up transfusion before we start chemo.

This is the VAC round - so we should only be in the hospital for 4 days. The chemo itself lasts for 48 hours - the Vincristine is just a one shot dose on Friday night. The cyclophosphamide will drip into Harry's central line IV over just a few hours on Friday, while the Adriamycin (or Doxorubicin) will slowly drip in over 48 hours. So the chemo itself should be done by Sunday afternoon and we should be able to come home on Monday sometime.

We ask for your prayers for an uneventful chemotherapy round, that the chemo continues to work its magic and shrink away Harry's tumours and that he gets through the recovery phase without a fever/need for a return hospital visit!

After this round we will have another CT scan to see how much smaller the tumours are now. We pray that his lungs and lymph nodes are completely clear and the liver tumour is small enough to schedule his surgery.

Blessings and with love,
Cynthia