Saturday Morning- another fever

Brody has had a few episodes of vomiting-- this mainly occurs when his NG tube gets occluded-- and is not draining properly. His pain is pretty well controlled with meds-- it continues to be intermitant and not constant and he can sleep for long periods without pain meds.

He did spike another fever last night (101.8) so they gave him some more tylenol and drew blood cultures again to check for infection-- they have continued to be negative but can take a few days to get results

At rounds this morning, our oncologist told me that he has spoken to our surgeon and the surgeon's main concern (whether to do the surgery) is Brody's immune system-- Brody's ANC (this represents his immunes system) was zero yesterday (can't get lower than that)-- he did start Neupogen injections (a daily injection) yesterday and his ANC is now back up to 120 so is heading in the right direction.

The plan now is to monitor this and if it continues to rise we are looking at possibly having surgery on Monday as long as everything else stays the same. The Neupogen can raise ANC rapidly and does have a delayed effect somewhat so we are hoping his immune system does respond rapidly...

Geordi has been staying at our friends Rich and Rachel (their son Levi is a good friend our our boys) and Rich is a pilot and flew Geordi down in a plane yesterday afternoon-- I picked them up from the airport and they did visit with Brody briefly but had to fly back real soon... Brody made a point of telling us to wake him up when Levi gets here-- Brody was a little bummed Levi had to leave so soon though.... many thanks for flying Geordi down.

We are still on waiting list for the Ronald Mcdonald house-- the hospital was able to arrange a room at the Holiday in nearby at a greatly reduced rate-- Trish took Geordi and Jaden their last night and I stayed overnight with Brody--

Thats pretty much it with us.... thanks to everyone who has helped us out and given us your thoughts and prayers....

Bill