Consolidation Treatment 3

We reached our last treatment of consolidation. Woo hoo!!!! We still have 10 days left in this cycle, but no more hospital visits, so that is a huge win. Thanks to Cooper's awesome blood counts he had 14 days off of hospital visits until we start Interim Maintenance I. This is by far the biggest break he has had from the hospital in 2 months. All in all Cooper has felt pretty good this cycle. However, that is in comparison to the first 29 days, which were an absolute nightmare. This cycle, the hardest thing was the fact that Cooper had to go under anesthesia and have a spinal tap every single week. That's hard on his little body. Also, when they go under that frequently, they start to build up a tolerance to the anesthetic drugs, making it more difficult for them to wake. Every treatment day of the cycle started at 5:00am with us driving the hour and a half to the hospital, with poor Coop getting sick most of the way there. No eating on anesthesia days and oral chemo is a yucky combination. So, we are excited to have this phase almost complete and we are moving into a phase with only 1 anesthesia day in 56 days. The rest of his treatment during this phase will be IV chemo.

 Awake and waiting to see the doctor after anesthesia.

 As if there isn't enough to worry about, Cooper also started PT because we need to stay on top of the long nerve damage and muscle damage that is caused by some of the chemo drugs he is taking. Luckily, Cooper thought his therapist was AMAZING and actually found something fun at the hospital. He really enjoyed PT because he got to run around and play basketball and even got to build some stuff while balancing....now we can work on our one legged lego building!