September 9th

I hope everyone had a great Labor Day weekend. We celebrated by going camping with family and we had an awesome time! Seth had another routine blood test yesterday and we got a call from our family doctors office to tell us that his counts are once again critically low. His platelets are at 22,000; white blood counts are at 1,000; and his red blood count is at 7.24 (this one would answer the question on why he is so tired). Since we choose to have most of Seth's blood work done at our local family doctor's office we usually hear from them first and then we wait to hear from Johns Hopkins what the next step will be. So far I have not heard from Johns Hopkins.
It was hard for me to send Seth to school today because as a mom you just want to put your arms around your kids and protect them from any possible danger. But God keeps reminding me that I have to let Seth go and trust that He will be always be with him. You can pray that Seth's blood counts come up and for physical strength to be able to go to school each day. At the beginning of this process the doctor's at Johns Hopkins told us that chemo will be like a boxing round. With each punch the boxer has a harder time of getting back up and continuing to fight. So with each round of chemo Seth receives it will be harder for his body to recover. And we are finding that to be very true.