Today started off as a sick and depressing day for Steve and I. Yesterday, Steve felt sick, threw up his lunch and all the new stuff he is taking to fight this Leukemia. This can happen with this stuff. But when he didn't swing back, and felt sicker as the day progressed into the night, I got extremely concered. We were up several times, finally brought the fever down once. Later into this mid morning and early afternoon, I couldn't bring down the fever. We have always been told by the Doc if he reaches 101.? , when he is neutropenia( a part in his white blood that fights infection, but has a hard time when it's too low) to go straight to the ER. So that is what we did. Because his last blood test showed low platelets and neutrophils. While they hooked him up to an IV and took blood, urine, chest X-ray etc. We all saw that his neutrophils and his platelets were beautiful and his white and red blood counts are normal. The X-Ray looked clear and so far they did not see anything majorly wrong. So that means Steve can fight this fever normally.This is such great news that I practically skipped out to the car and almost left Steve in the ER. Steve must of caught something going around. ER did give us a prescription just in-case he doesn't feel better some time tomorrow or the next day. But we'll save that to wait and see if he'll swing this.
My whole point to this update is something is working! God has shown us a way to help Steve's terrible cancer. We do not believe that he is cancer free but he sure looks good. This protocol is costing around 2000 a month plus other things that have come up like today,going to the ER. We can not do this alone! That's why I am thankful to God first and to all of you, our friends and family. With all of you, Steve just might have a few more years than what we were told. Thank you with the biggest tears rolling down my puffed up cheeks. Steve and I are honored and so so grateful to have such caring and awesome people in our lives!!! Sincerely from my joyful heart ,
Robbin
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