Day 28!

We made it! The morning started off a little rough because Jordan wanted breakfast just like Noah. It is so hard to deny your kids a bowl of cereal! We ended up putting Jordan in the stroller and walking with him for 2 hours. Jim walked for one hour then I drove and met them and we switched places. We ended up walking to Childrens hospital. Once there things went smoothly and they were able to squeeze him in early. The fact that he was standing in the hall screaming "I want a quesadilla!!" at the top of his lungs may have expedited things. His cell counts look really good and we expect the results of his bone marrow to be good as well. He begins the second phase of treatment today. It is called the consolidation phase and will also last 28 days. He is on a new drug called Mercaptopurine that he takes orally daily. The side effects are minimal. A key component of this phase is weekly treatments of prophylactic chemo injections into his spinal fluid. Again, he cannot eat breakfast before these but hopefully that will get easier as he comes off the steroids. We also have earlier appointment times for the next three weeks which will help as well. It will take 1-2 weeks for the effects of the steroids to subside and by early Oct we should have normal Jordan back. Yeah!!!!Thanks for all your prayers and good wishes. Love, Lara and Jim