July 31st 2008
Today I went in for chemo and tomorrow I leave for New Mexico with my dad. When I get back I get to start school! I am so excited.
July 17th 2008
Well I survived last weekend with the 4 days straight of chemo again. I go to get one more chemo session and then I will be on maintenance. Maintenance is when I only have to take pills everyday, steriods 5 days a month, and chemo pills every thursday but I only go to the hospital once a month. YEA
July 4th 2008
This is my last month before I go on maintenance. This weekend is a really hard weekend. I have to have chemo every day and they have to access my port every day for 4 days, then I get 4 days off and start over again. The doctors wanted to leave my port accessed with the needle and I said NO WAY! I want to be able to play basketball and on the tramp. The doctor said he could not believe I would want to do anything, I proved him wrong.
May 29th
This month has went really fast, I only had to have chemo on the 1st and today. This is a good month. Erica and Ashlee came today for AJ's graduation. I am happy to see them
April 9th
I finally got to go to a birthday party! It was McKayla's birthday and my ANC is up so we got to go.
April 1st
I am still getting chemo every thursday, my anc is starting to go up. My Uncle Terry came from Portland, he gave me a basketball signed by the portland trailblazers. My dad came home from New Mexico. My mom is still working. My teacher Mr Funk comes every wednesday to teach me, he says I am really smart.
Aunt Rosie has been here
my Aunt Rosie has been here for the week so we have been having fun, my dad is going to go to New Mexico next week. I will miss him. I am still getting chemo every thursday
my immune is down again
I was suppose to start my new phase called consolidation but my immune is to low, I have to be at 750 to start the new phase and it is only 390. I guess it is good I got to go to dinner because now I cant go anywhere or see anyone. My aunt Becky has been here this week to help with things, we have had fun watching movies and wrestling.
Camron got the ok to go to dinner
Camron got the OK to go to dinner, the doc said he was doing good and needed a break so he asked Cam what he wanted to do, Cam said he wanted to go to LaFrontera for a Bean Burrito. So that is what we did! He was so excited to go out. His white cells are up but his red was down a little, they said that is normal. His immune fighting cells were up and that is why we could take him to dinner. He cant go to any stores, to many sick people there but once in a while he can go out to keep his spirits up. Pretty soon he is going to be able to see some visitors. Camron gets really bored and he misses school and everyone. Camron is having a hard time walking, his feet and legs hurt. The doc said that is normal at this stage, in one more week we start the next phase. He gets one week off of the steriods and next thursday we start again. Camron hates the Thursdays because he has to go to sleep to have the back pokes and bone marrow done but every week he gets better and better. We are so proud of him, he never complains about anything. He keeps our spirits up just watching him be the fighter that he is.
Becky and the boys 2008
Becky came to help us with Camron since he could not go to school, she was so awesome and so much help. Camron had a good time because she spoiled himErica came to see Camron Feb 2008
My sister flew down here as soon as she knew I was sick, she is awesome but she makes me mind and put on my socks.
Feb 14, 2008 Valentines Day
I went to the hospital today for my chemo treatment. I didnt have to have the back poke or bone marrow today. I hate those days because I cant eat before. I only have 1 more week on the steriods, yea! my blood is doing good and is building up great. My immune is better, in one week it went from 0 to 300, the doctor said that is awsome! As soon as it gets to 500 I can have visitors for short visits and I am so excited!!! I get really bored being home all day. My dad said as soon as the doctor said I can leave the house we are going to Tepenaki (my favorite place to eat) Thanks for all your prayers and gifts and messages.
As of today I am cancer FREE!!!!
I went to the hospital yesterday and got my chemo. They had to give me 1 1/2 pints of blood because my body was low and they did the bone marrow test. The doctor called my dad today and told my dad the greatest news! I am cancer FREE today!!! It is so exciting! I have to go thru more chemo treatments until the end of Feb and after that I can go to plan B. I still cant see people which is really hard because I miss everyone. My WHITE blood cells went from 140 to 50 which is really low. My RED blood cells went from 400 to 300. my HCT went from 32.3 to 25.5 and my platlets stayed the same. The platlets keep me from bleeding if I get cut and this should be 400. The ANC which fights infection is now 0 - that really scared my mom but the doctor said that is normal when killing the cancer. As soon as the ANC gets to be 500 I can start having small visits from family and friends, keep praying and if everything goes as good as it is going that could be really soon! I hope so. Thanks for all your prayers.
Feb 1st 2008
Here is an update for Camron, he is such a trooper! He is so strong and never complaines about anything. I had a misunderstanding about Camrons bone marrow, I thought the doctor said there was NO cancer in his bonemarrow, I was wrong, last week he had 86% cancer. This thursday when he had his test he only has 20% cancer in his bonemarrow. That is so awsome and he has improved so much it is amazing! Here is some information that could help understand The red blood cells should be between 400 an 520, when we took him to the hospital they were 146 today they are 4.00The white blood cells should be between 450 and 1350, when we took him to the hospital they were 120 today they are 140the HCT which I dont really understand should be between 350 and 450, the day we took him they were 107 and today they are 323. The Platlets (this is what stops bleeding) should be 150 to 400, when we took him in it was 50 and today it is 52. The next one decides when he can have visitors. It is called ANC (dont know what that is but they say it is what fights infection) anyway it should be 150 to 800, when we took him in it was 300 and that didnt go up this week, they said when it gets to 500 we can limit visitors to nobody that even has a sniffle, but we are looking forward to that. Thanks everyone for being concerned! We will go to Primary Childrens every Thursday and he will get chemo and until there is no cancer in his bone marrow he will get it checked so he has to go to sleep which means he can't eat after midnight and that makes him really mad! The steriods are making him eat and eat and eat. It is very funny, he goes to sleep thinking about food, wakes up in the middle of the night and tells me what he is going to have for breakfast and then the minute he wakes up he wants to eat. I am happy he is eating so basically we give him everything.Thanks again and I will keep you posted next weekend.
Camron's Leukemia Jan 2008
On January 21st 2008 we found out that Camron has Leukemia, we are very lucky that we found out when we did because we did not ever see any signs or symptoms. Camron had felt tired and had a cough but that is all. We thought the cough was his asthma acting up. On Tuesday night we were giving Camron his asthma treatment and his left side went paralized. We rushed him to Jordan Valley hospital. The nurses thought he was having a stroke and rushed him into a room. It was very scary. At the hospital they drawed blood and saw something wrong with his blood. They decided to send us to Primary Childrens Hospital. We knew something was very wrong. Camron had all of his feeling on his left side back by the time we were ready to go to Primary Childrens in an ambulance. Around 2am they told us that Camron has Leukemia.
The Villanueva's
We started this blog because Camron got leukemia but now we just like to post what is going on with the family so we just want it to be a happy blog. We have so much fun and we try to be positive about everything. Hope I can keep up.
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