09/20/2024
On the left is Caleb today, with UNC-Chapel Hill Children’s Hospital behind him. (Literally and figuratively)
For comparison, the picture on the right was taken one year ago this month.
He had a long day today, but so far, all of his results are looking GREAT. His CBC is perfect. Do you know how awesome that is to see after a kid has fought leukemia?!
His chest X-ray was perfect. His echocardiogram is good. His bone age imaging is right on track. He’s growing. His lung function test (PFT), bone density, and a few labs are still pending.
It hit me riding home this evening: I thought of him as “doing good” a year ago. He certainly was compared to the year before that. However, last September, our boy had bilateral pleural effusions (fluid on the lungs-severe on one side), mild fluid around the heart, osteoporosis, gastritis and duodenitis so bad that he could hardly eat and had lost weight until he was about skin and bones. He wasn’t healthy. Today, he is SO much healthier! He’s about 30 lbs heavier, can eat all he wants, feels good, etc. God has brought him SO far!!
He did give us a little scare last week with swollen lymph nodes. Thankfully, they looked benign on the ultrasound and as long as the rest of the labs come back looking good, his oncologist is comfortable just having us monitor them and return in 6 months. Thank you for all your prayers! 😁
