200!!!!!

On Tuesday was a huge milestone with our first ANC of 16.  The Absolute Neutrophil Count or ANC is the body's ability to fight things off.  Another prayer was answered today.  A sweet friend had been praying for Nathan to smile at me.  He has not smiled since before chemo started.  Tuesday night, the prayer was answered in a precious way.  He kept scrunching up his nose and smiling.  I have a great picture of the wonderful memory.

On Wednesday his ANC was 92.  I noticed it looked like there was blood in his urine.  The tests confirmed it, but they think it might be to his extremely low platelet count (7).  He has been getting platelets twice a day, and blood every other day on top of all of his medications.  The have been also having to give him diuretics 1-3 times a day because of the volume of fluids he receives.  He usually has 5 IV lines going constantly, sometimes up to 9.

Although it is volatile, today was a huge milestone, his ANC was 230!  Thank you Jesus!  If his ANC stays consistently above 200, the sores in his mouth will start healing.  We are so thankful for this huge milestone.  God is good.  After a lot of platelets, his urine is returning to a normal color.  He still is not eating.

I went home to be with Isaac tonight and Shawn is staying at the hospital with Nathan.  I started to not feel very well.  This might mean that I cannot go back to the hospital for 3 days . . .  That will be hard.  I have not spent that much time away from Nathan since he's been born.

I am excited, some of our friends from Kansas City are coming up this weekend, another blessing!