The In-between

Kam has bounced back, slowly but surely each day, since resuming his chemotherapy. His weight has miraculously maintained to improved since his last hospitalization, despite him having quite a few rough (not feeling well nor up to) eating days. We have absolutely zero explanation for this, but know God's looking out for Kam! His hair that has grown back in, has miraculously hung on longer than the last round of chemotherapy too. 

He is making good progress with his knee surgery recovery, and in physical therapy as well. He likes his physical therapist therapist and PT aide, and they both like to tease one another and talk about cool cars. 

Kameron had a recent bone scan which came back inconclusive. The doctor recommended x-rays to rule out evidence of metastatic (spread cancer) lesions and thankfully those came back as ok. 

This week we learned Kameron's blood counts are very low and, in particular, his platelets (these help with clotting/stopping bleeding), are very low. Normal is 150,000 or more. His were 11,000. We had to stop his Aspirin to prevent blood clots and are watching him for any signs of uncontrollable bleeding. He has already underwent a platelet transfusion once, which improved his numbers only slightly to 14,000. He will see the clinic again on Monday and he may need a transfusion then. Until then we are watching him incredibly close for any problems.

I got to have lunch date unexpectedly with Jesse and Kam this past week, after Kameron had physical therapy. His physical therapists office is located across the hall from where I work as a PA. Kam had Jesse text me an invite and you better believe I jumped on the chance to have Panera with some of my best men!

This morning Kam woke up with a foreign body sensation in one of his eyes. I found a cluster of eyelashes that had turned inward and were poking him and removed them. It felt some better, but is still bothering him a significant amount. He is seeing his eye doctor later today for a thorough check. 

Kameron has spent his past 2 off weeks playing video games, watching funny or cute cat videos, and building more Lego cars. He has been doing a great job on them and intends to have a whole fleet when he is done!

Please pray for Kameron's counts to improve. He is tentatively scheduled this coming Thursday for his next round of chemo, but that cannot happen if his platelets are below 50,000. Delays in treatment push back his finish date, and he is very hopeful he can be done by his birthday and Christmas. Please pray for his eye pain to get better soon; and that the sores on his tongue he developed from the chemo, continue to heal and resolve. 

Thank you, friends. ❤