Not really Spring Break it is Professional Development week. We are starting off the week hanging out at the hospital. Aidan has his scheduled hospital visit of Nelarabine through his VAD. The appt was at 11 but we had to wait for bloodwork and then bloodcounts. It was about 1:30 when he finally got the chemo going through him. It takes about an hour. Back to microwave food, since I wasn't anticipating staying so long I ran to Safeway and got them Mr noodle and kraft mac and cheese. There is an activity room that has a big TV, tons of board games, arts and crafts and of course every possible gaming console Wii, Playstation and Xbox. The boys sit their butts down and are oblivious to everything around them. I ran into some parents that I had met on previous occasions so we had a nice visit. I was really happy to run into Stacey, her son and Aidan were diagnosed about the same time. When you hear that we have to go to the hospital it isn't a bad thing. You get to meet up with some of the other parents that have children that are going through the same thing and the crew at the hospital are so GREAT. Oh they got a new coffee maker in the clinic so Stacey made me a perfect latte(hmmmm I should have taken a picture of it)
Aidan's platelets are down which isn't a good thing. Here is the definition Platelets help the blood to clot so that heavy bleeding does not occur
when you cut or hurt yourself. When there are not enough platelets in
the blood, you may bruise or bleed easily. He will get bloodwork again on thursday to see if he needs a blood transfusion. Luckily it only takes about an hour of transfusion, the weird part is that the blood is frozen and he can feel it when it goes into him.
OH by the wayI took these pictures with Aidans IPAD with a new app we just downloaded it is free and called cameraawesom
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