Still grump in' - August 9, 2014

Another day in the neutropenia (low count) countdown.  Asa was still nauseous today but didn't throw up.  He's acting what I refer to as "Vincristine (name of his weekly chemo) grumpy." Just never his jolly self and always clammy to the touch a day or two after.  After inpatient chemo last week, his grumpies just haven't totally lifted.  He seems hungry but has little appetite.  Praying that lifts soon, as it did last time.  Pray Asa sleeps soundly, too.  He's waking quite a bit at night hungry, but he won't eat adequately during day.

Thanks always for standing behind us in prayer.  It means so much!  If we forget to say thank you in the chaos, please forgive us! Please pray that we all stay well for another two weeks.  This Thursday is Asa's final chemo, Lord willing.  His counts should begin to rise after that.  This round has been a bit harder than the last few, so please pray he springs back quickly as school starts.  We have lots of testing between now and the end of the month.  Please pray as we have to do several sedations or partial sedations.  That has yet to be fun with a toddler.  Pray for Asa's hearing, that it not deteriorate further from the chemo.  We know the chemo is needed to knock things out firmly, but it's hard knowing that it can cost hearing, hard when your toddler still doesn't talk much. We know he hears, but you can't help but wonder how much when you know that's a real issue at hand.  Pray for our endurance these last weeks as we move to a place where perhaps cancer no longer owns our time.

Thanks today for fun walk and long naps.  Happy to see Asa growing and taking some baby steps, looking like a big kid.  Thankful that the peach fuzz hair is still intact, though the color still eludes us.  Perhaps you can see a faint shadow of hair in the pics?  Maybe? Happy to see boy content to play cars and play with his brother's sweet kitties, just normal stuff.  And we appreciate and are thankful for Zofran.  It was a miracle drug that saved me in several pregnancies from hospitalization and it's saving us a lot of grief with Asa.