Clouds of Mercy

No big news today. Counts are still down; getting a blood transfusion in a few minutes. Mouth seems to be bothering him some too (stopped ea...

Oh to be home! Watts and I have both been a little out of sorts today... he can blame his low hemoglobin, I can only say that I'm gettin...

Naps on mama. Nemo watching, again. Wagon rides. Castle building (thanks to awesome art therapists). Guitar strumming. Spaghetti and frosty ...

Day eight and holding steady. Watts is still fever-free and as wild as ever. His weight did dropped some more in the last two days so I woul...

We are watching a movie and having another family sleepover in 912. Piper is cuddled up with her papa on the air mattress and Watts is alrea...

  Watts is having a good day. He got a blood transfusion this morning (hemoglobin level was 6/very low) but the rest of the day he's ...

Watts is doing great. He hasn't had a fever in over 12 hours and seems to be a little less nauseated. He is completely unplugged from ev...

As of 6am Watts is finished with chemo for this stay. Now we just hang tight and wait for his counts to bottom out and then start to rebo...

We strolled the 9th floor hallways for a while tonight, with Watts masked up and tethered to his IV pole. Amazingly, he's suddenly becom...

Babies are napping simultaneously in the room. There are sounds of machines beeping and babies crying in the next room over but all is calm ...

Hard to believe that we actually made it to our "long stay," as we've been calling it! Watts finished his second dose of HD AR...

Thought I posted this last night but it didnt post... Going to bed now (it's going to be a broken night of chemo, diaper changes, and ey...

Well, it looks like tomorrow is the big day! Watts "made counts" on Monday morning, came off neupogen for 48 hours, had a repeat C...

Watts' ANC has shot up to 3000 thanks to the neupogen shots. His platelets and hemoglobin levels have dropped back down to borderline...

Watts' hemoglobin level was up a teeny tiny bit so he didn't have to have a blood transfusion today. I cried in the parking lot ...

We are still home. Watts just started eating again and sleeping better, thank goodness, so we are just waiting for his counts...

Watts' ANC is zero, as we expected, so we are holed up and waiting for his counts to start recover. He doesn't need any transfusions...