Seth had a big day at hospital on monday. Left home at 7am and got home at 6pm and he had his last lot of chemo for this phase of his treatment. We now have to wait 2 weeks for his bone marrow test but he has to go back next monday for a GFR test. This is basically a series of injections and blood tests to determine the condition of his kidneys to see if they can handle the next phase of his treatment.
This next phase is pretty full on and is spread over 60 days minimum and involves oral chemo everyday and after the first week he will have to be admitted to westmead for a special type of chemo called high dose methotrexate. This stay will be for 3-5 days and then he will get two weeks off with a blood test in between and then back to hospital for 3-5 days depending on his white cell counts and so on for a total of 4 big hospital stays.
Its a pretty full on schedule and the methotrexate they will be giving him is pretty nasty hence the need for kidney tests throughout and there are some pretty nasty possible side effects so we just hope and pray the little guy doesn't suffer too much with it.
We tryed to get him into school for a bit this week just for social reasons and because his school photos were on but the school rang and told us they've had cases of whooping cough, scarlett fever and measles going around so he wasn't able to attend which was a bit sad but I don't think he minded too much.
Anyway, more next week.
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