When you have a child with cancer, you have a constant battle of emotions. You also have hopes, expectations, and reality. You are on a continuous cycle of these emotions and sometimes you even experience more than one at a time.
I always try to remain hopeful and optimistic; but also hold onto reality and the possiblities of what could happen, so I’m mentally prepared. Let me tell you, it’s freaking exhausting.
The first stage of treatment ended and the second phase started on Friday. The biggest news that we have to share is that Gabe is now in Remission!! He is right where they want him to be at this point of treatment. His bone marrow test showed zero Leukemia cells! He was also in the Low Risk Catergory in terms of a relapse.
God is good!
The second phase of treatment started right after his procedure, and were admitted for our first 24 hour dose of chemo. It was rough. Gabe became VERY cranky during this dose and everything made him angry. As a parent, I know that this is supposed to make him better; but it doesn’t change the fact that he’s only 3 and its hard to explain to him that something that is making him feel so bad is actually helping.
He was also hooked up to fluids since Thursday-they have to flush out all the chemo from his body. By Saturday, it wasn’t out of his kidneys enough, so we had to stay an extra night in the hospital.
Remember how I said it was a constant battle of emotions? By Monday, we were hopful that we could come home, but his labs still were not where they wanted them to be. So we spent my birthday away from home, and away from Daniel and Bella. So while I feel thankful, excited, and relieved about his remission; I still feel sad about having to stay longer, angry that my baby has to go through this rough chemo, and helpless to make it better.
We are waiting for labs today, to see if the levels are where they need to be for us to go home. So please keep us in your prayers!
#GabeStrong
***Update:
No home today. His level was low enough to go home, but because of his mouth sores, we have to stay. They have become bigger and they worry about dehydration if we go home since he doesn’t want to eat or drink much. Keeping him on fluids.
Praising God that day by day he is getting better.
Pete & I are still praying & believing that he is being
healed day by day. Psalm 103:20, Psalm 107:20,
1 Peter 2:24
May God bless all of you and give you peace.
Sandy
Prayers continue for Gabe and all the family.It is a hard thing to watch a child affected by a serious illness.May God give you peace and hope through this difficult time.Love you all.
Thinking and praying for you guys everyday. This type at his age has a very high cure rate but its still hard for Mama and Daddy to watch them putting all this into their child, knowing its gonna cure him in the end but make him very sick right now. It will get better eventually and you will be back to your normal world.<3