Tomorrow will be day 29 of induction!

2/17/2021

Tomorrow will be day 29 of induction! Noah will get his bone marrow biopsy, LP (spinal tap) with IT (Intrathecal chemotherapy) in the morning around 10:30am. He then will receive Vinchristine (chemo) through his picc line.

If everything looks good (numbers etc.), which we are praying they will, he will begin the next phase of treatment which is Consolidation.

Below in the first picture is the first week into treatment. The second photo is 4 weeks later and a month on Dexamethasone (steroid). You can tell the difference with the weight gain and water retention. I know some people have asked and was curious about his weight gain and the steroid is the culprit. Within the next month, he should lose some of the water retention and the swelling will go down.

The reason we started this group was to allow

family and friends to follow Noah’s journey and to also help educate (as I learn myself) and maybe help others and pass along information on childhood Leukemia and how real it is!! You never know when the information I post may come in handy for someone else!

Keep Noah in your prayers for a safe and positive procedure tomorrow. Next week, he will get his port surgically placed in his chest.

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.