Hot off the press! Jonathan had his normal radiation treatment yesterday morning and afterwards he was going to have a platelet transfusion. Although he still gets platelets and red blood cells transfused - I can clearly see that the frequency of which he needs transfusion is diminishing. It so happened that Jonathan's lab results showed that his platelet count went up by 1 yesterday - instead of dropping - so in the end they decided not to transfused. A good thing too since the blood bank didn't have much supplies of platelets so instead of Jonathan getting one bag he was going to get half a bag. Apparently the blood bank had a busy night and a lot of the 'stock' was used out.
So - while Gabby was waiting for the platelets to come up (remember she didn't get the results from the lab as yet so she was still waiting) she found out that our primary oncologist wanted to see Jonathan. We figure we'll ask her how the test results look so far (since there were three tests that were done already). His fourth and last test is being done this morning - the MIGB scan.
Well, we found out that his bone marrow aspirate test showed that Jonathan still had cancer cells in his bone marrow. So Jonathan is NOT cancer free. This is disappointing news and we are figuring out our next steps. There is one more treatment that we are considering and it takes about 6 months. The word is - if he isn't cured after this treatment he wouldn't see next year's Christmas. If we don't do anything, i.e. stop treatment right now - he definitely wouldn't see next year's Christmas. So right now we're trying to figure out how best do we juggle this treatment and the must do things we want to do, including going to Trinidad and his Make A Wish trip.
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Walter & family,
You continue to be in our prayers. I know the decisions you make are not easy ones. We are coming to California this Christmas, and had hoped to see you all, but I hope you have a wonderful time in T'dad instead.
Love,
Nadia & family
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