Easy capizzi

Friday's clinic appointment went well. Hayden's blood counts are good so no need to limit public outings (yay!). Hopefully, this will be the case for most of this treatment phase because Hayden is getting methotrexate (a cancer-fighting drug that's important in leukemia treatment) in escalating doses, every 10 days. This is called the capizzi method and it's part of the study to test if it's better than the high-dose method, which requires hospitalization. Both ways of giving methotrexate are proven to be effective in treating ALL so we were happy to be randomized into the 'easy capizzi' path of the study. For the first time since November 19, we will go an entire week without a medical appointment.

So his blood counts are good but Hayden's weight is down a little...not surpirsing because he really doesn't have much of an appetite right now. We're keeping a close eye on that to see if we need to re-introduce appetite-enhancing drugs. Also, his legs are again giving out on him so we need to keep on the physio exercises to make sure he doesn't lose too much strength. Easy capizzi, huh?

Next appointment - April 14....