some good news - LP's clear!

Yesterday Chris awoke with more energy than I've seen him with in over a month.  At his Dr.'s appointment we found out his last 2 lumbar punctures were negative for leukemia cells!!  

This means he only has to have one lumbar puncture with chemo a week instead of 2!  Because his type of leukemia (ALL) is so aggressive he still has to have them once a week for the next 4 weeks.  

And his counts are slowly climbing - yesterday was the first day in something like 2 weeks that he didn't have to have blood and platelet transfusions!!  

I took this picture of him when we were at one of the trans units for his IV anti-fungal and antibiotic treatments.  Chris is on a special antibiotic because when he was admitted for neutropenia they found a blood infection but the antibiotic was successful in treating it and the last 3 tests have shown up negative for it.

He has daily appointments at MD Anderson for the next 10 days.  Hopefully by this time next week we will get some information about whether or not the augmented hyper-cvad chemo regimen is working to put him into remission.

He doesn't have any appointments until 3 this afternoon so he got to sleep in for the first time in a long time!