Things Are Going Really Well

People keep asking me, “How’s Jacob?” And it is so fun for me to say, “Things are going really well!” 

This phase of chemo (called Delayed Intensification) is suppose to be, well, intense but Jacob seems to be doing really well. The major side-effect is tiredness, but even that isn’t very bad. We were sort of prepping for the worst a few weeks ago and I’m so happy to report that it hasn’t been bad at all.

Jacob pushing his own syringe of saline into his port 3/1/12

He is losing his hair again, as you can see. It had started to grow back, and was actually kind of long, albeit thin—we referred to it as his ‘Yoda hair’ (see any number of previous posts on Jacob’s interest in Star Wars).  The Yoda-hair is all but gone now, coming out in clumps and patches where he rubbed up against his pillow.

Jacob is feeling fine though and we mostly hang out (watching too much TV) as we wait for his counts to climb back up. This Sunday (March 11th) he takes his last chemo pill for this phase. Then it’s two weeks of recovery time and on to the next, much-anticipated phase called Maintenance. We are told that in that phase things become a lot more “normal” for us.

Mom, Isaac and Jacob watching Disney’s cartoon Robin Hood (a classic, right?)