Thomas update and Recommitment

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Here is the latest update on Thomas:

"Great news! The shot Thomas received 11 days ago to help boost his white count has finally started working! He actually has a little bit of an immune system now (although it is still formally characterized as “severe neutropenia.”) One of the side effects Thomas experienced the last time he got this shot was pain in his legs, due to the activity in the bone marrow. So, his legs started to hurt a couple of nights ago, and his response was to laugh with glee and say “Yea! My legs are really hurting so my body must be making neutrophils!!” --- Just one example of the strange, strange life of a cancer patient. His platelets have fallen again, and he will receive another platelet transfusion today, but his hemoglobin is hanging in there. All in all, things are looking up. He is off the blood pressure medication and the IV antibiotics seem to be working on the blood infection. We are hoping to get to go home tomorrow with him taking oral antibiotics. It’s looking like he will still be able to go on the trip to Orlando next week with 5 other cancer patients here his age, as well as one of the oncology docs here, and some nurses. I’m having a difficult time with the idea at the moment, but I’m sure I’ll feel better over the next few days as his immune system gets stronger. As for the next steps in his treatment, he will have another bone marrow aspiration around March 10 to make sure he is still in remission. (I can’t imagine anything surviving the chemo he has had over the past 3 months!) Anyway, the results from the bone marrow will be sent to the Mayo Clinic to look for any signs of residual disease, which will help the doctors determine how the rest of his treatment should proceed. We know there will be more chemo, we just don’t know if it will continue to be as aggressive as it has been. "