We don't have a final count yet, but Ben is going into the "high-risk" treatment protocol because he still has too many blast cells in his bone marrow. This does not mean he's not likely to be cured, but it does mean he'll get much more intensive chemo. I will post more information on his treatment when I have time.
The good news is that Ben's white blood cell count is up a lot, meaning that he is responding well to the chemo. He doesn't have to take oral antibiotics anymore, which is great because they taste awful and cause nausea. He has some sores in his mouth caused by the steroids which we'll treat with new medicine I just picked up from the pharmacy.
I'll post more later, but I need to get home to drop off the medicine (we came in separate cars), then go to work.
Nicole and I started this blog to keep friends and family updated on Ben's fight against leukemia which began on May 8, 2007. If you want to make a donation to help Ben and other cancer patients, please click the links in the right margin. Thanks to everyone for your support and encouragement.
Links
- American Cancer Society
- Ben's Starlight Foundation Donations Page
- Camp Ronald McDonald
- Cedars-Sinai Donations (Please Specify Account No. 216620, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Fund)
- Children's Oncology Group
- Children's Oncology Group Donations
- Donate Blood
- Facebook Cause -- Cedars Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Fund
- Hockey Fights Cancer
- Make-a-Wish Foundation Donations
- National Cancer Institute Leukemia Page
- Pablove
- Starlight Children's Foundation
- The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
- The Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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- Who reads this blog, anyway?
- Thank you, Turning Point!
- Oops! (And thank God!!!)
- Bad News
- Preliminary Report
- The Big Day (?)
- Message of the Day
- No news yet
- Waiting for Big Test Results
- Hey Ms. Thomas!
- Steroids
- Thanks for the Comments!
- Great E-Mail to Scott
- The PICC Line
- The New Prescription
- Another One Bites The Dust
- The Waiting is the Hardest Part
- The Infusion Center
- Ugh!
- Some Test Results
- Blood
- Hello from the Playroom
- You want photos, eh?
- Back to Work
- Tuesday Report
- First Outpatient Visit, Part 3
- First Outpatient Visit, Part 2
- The Outpatient Stuff Begins
- Afternoon Report
- Sunday Morning
- Post-party, no depression
- First Day at Home
- We're Home!!!!!!!!
- Links Updated
- Sorry for the confusion
- No title
- Waking up
- Morning Update
- Another reason to love the NHL
- Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation
- Still on track
- Readership
- Pills, pills, pills
- More progress
- Thank You!
- Shots are done
- Morning update
- Ben's first post
- More good news
- Treatment, Part II
- The Longer Term
- Another good place to donate
- "pre-B"
- Some Great News
- Questions from Ben
- Aunt Stefanie, part 2
- No title
- Aunt Stefanie is working overtime!
- Open Forum Answer #1: Advance Signs?
- More on Donating
- Bone Marrow Test Results
- Questions about gifts and donations
- Neat e-mail
- First Blackberry Post
- Open Forum
- Treatment, Part I
- What Ben Has
- Introduction
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15 comments:
Take care and big hug and kiss to everyone. I know it's a hard day, hang in there. Love you all
Hi Ben,
We are working at centers and Miss Thomas told us that we could send notes to you...I hope you are feeling better! I can't wait for you to come back to play soccer with me at school! I miss having so much fun with you on the playground. I hope you're coming back to school soon=-)
Love,
Conrad Smith
Dear Ben,
I hope you are feeling better soon. I will be happy when you come back to school!
From,
Effie Hirzel
Dear Ben,
Feel better!
From,
Hannah Kanter
Dear Ben,
I hope you feel better soon! I wish you would come back to school.
Love,
Janice Roh
Hi Ben,
I hope you will come back to school soon so you can see all of your friends and teachers again! I think you are a great kid.
From,
Rachael Griswold
Dear Ben,
I hope you have a great summer and I hope you feel better and I hope you come back to this school.
Love,
Justin Nakagawa
Dear Ben,
I hope you get better soon!!
Love,
Rebecca Muhlheim
Dear Ben,
I hope you feel better. Are you okay?
Love,
Annette Mayorkas
Dear Ben,
How are you doing? I hope you feel good. I was wondering if you are still in my math group. I want you to get better real soon!!
Love,
Gracie Goldberg
Hi Ben,
I hope you feel better and I hope you could come back to school. I want you to keep having fun.
Love,
Georgia Salke
Dear Ben,
I miss you in school! I hope you come back next year. I hope you are feeling a little better. Maybe I could come and visit you sometime soon. My mom promised me that I could visit you. The last time she said that we would visit this Thursday. My brother and sister and my whole family say "hi"! I hope you are having lots of fun at home. I remember how nice you were to everyone.
Yours truly,
Matt Siegel
Dear Ben,
I hope you feel better and I hope you come back so we can play handball, basketball, and soccer. And I want to see you for math groups too...I love playing sparkle with you and I hope you win.
Love,
Myles Morrison
Hi Ben,
What are you doing? I hope you feel better soon! I can't wait until next year because then you will hopefully be better. I miss you at school!!
Love,
Avery OckoMichalak
Dear Ben,
I hope you feel better!
Love,
Chase Urlik
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