It has started – The Amazing Noah

Noah is starting the major chemo treatment right now. 13:25 pm. They have given him Benadryl and a few other preventatives this morning and he is now on the Chemo IV. I pray to God he does not have any allergic reactions to the medications. He will be on the IV for the next 3 hours. There will be no sleep here at the Thompson Compound tonight. My wife Gina is there with him to watch over him and to do what she can to comfort him. I feel so bad for Noah, he will really have a rough night and I would trade places with him in a blink of an eye.

Fingers Crossed.

DAD.

Symptoms

ALL symptoms start when leukemia cells crowd out normal blood cells in bone marrow. The types of symptoms your child has will depend on the numbers of cancer cells and healthy blood cells.

Children with B-cell ALL may:

Bleed or bruise more easily than usual

Feel very tired

Get infections more often

Lose their appetite

Other symptoms include:

Bone or joint pain

Limping

Fever

Pale skin

Red or purple spots called petechiae on the skin

Swollen lymph nodes in the neck, underarms, or groin

If the cancer cells travel to your child’s liver and spleen, these organs can grow large enough to make the belly swell. In some boys, the testicles can also grow larger.