Round 3

We had our Dr visit today and the numbers are going up. Jacob's ANC count rose to 150 which indicates that the bone marrow is producing healthy cells. Yippee!

The results of last Friday's bone marrow biopsy show more leukemia cells then desired at this point of treatment. We had been hoping to be under 5% and are actually closer to 15%. This is not a major problem - but to be on the safe side they will do another biopsy this Friday. If the numbers from that one are not under 5% they will intensify the chemotherapy regiment for the rest of the induction phase. The Doctor is not expecting this based on the results showing in his blood counts.

Overall the visit was good and Dr Odom is pleased with the progress Jacob is making. Jake was happy overall with the visit and pleased that he was given permission to eat a bag of chips by the Dr (that was his pressing concern to voice in this visit). Not so happy by the trade off that there will be no more until the weekend - oh well.