2005 Journal Entries
| June 23rd - Archie is admitted to the Hospital. |
| June 24th - Thanks for your e-mails and phone calls. |
| June 26th - Archie is improving. |
| June 27th - Archie is acting himself. |
| June 28th - Archie is doing well. |
| June 29th - Dr. Hayes scheduled a bone marrow aspiration. |
| June 30th - The bone marrow aspiration brought good news today. |
| July 1st - Archie was very much himself today. |
| July 11th - Archie was readmitted to the hospital tonight. |
| July 13th - I am exhausted. |
| July 14th - Archie started chemotherapy today. |
| July 17th - Archie started his fourth day of chemotherapy. |
| July 19th - Archie has been so pleasant the past few days. |
| July 21st - Little Man continues to be a maverick. |
| July 25th - Archie may get to come home tomorrow. |
| July 26th - We came home today. For about three hours. |
| July 27th - Good news today. |
| July 31st - Archie spiked a fever Saturday afternoon. |
| August 1st - Back to the operating room. |
| August 9th - Going to see Dr. Stroud today. |
| August 21st - The Blue Screen of Death. |
| August 29th - Archie is doing really well. |
| September 11th - Kit came home from the Hospital. |
| September 27th - Archie got home from the hospital Saturday morning. |
| January 27th, 2006 - Although each day drags by, each month passes so quickly. |
| April 25th, 2006 - Meyer Center for Special Children. |
| July 1st, 2006 - Archie isn’t a baby anymore. |
| Archie started chemotherapy today |
| by Anne Moore 07/14/2005 |
Just got home from a long day at the hospital so I’m aiming to make this entry as short as possible…
In short, Archie started chemotherapy today and most of his blood counts are dropping dramatically. This
is great news because it means the treatment is working. We still have a long way to go, but we’re encouraged
by this progress.
Archie’s platelet count is currently in the 1 million range (can you believe he has over a million platelets
pulsing through his veins right now?), but Dr. Hayes is confident this number will bottom out over the next
few days.
Our tough-as-nails fighter is handling the treatment very well. One of his medicines is causing him to have
diarrhea, though, but Archie’s coping as best he can.
I promise to write more when I have more time and energy, but need to go now and take care of myself and babies
two and three. But before I go I wanted to let you all know that not only does today’s progress give us reason
to be encouraged, but so does statistical evidence. Because Archie developed AML before age two, and because he
has Down syndrome, he has an 85 percent chance of an event-free survival. I don’t place much stock in percentages
because our little family has always defied them before, but it is comforting to know that the odds are on
Archie’s side.
I’ll close with this: If Archie was articulate enough to put his thoughts into words I just know what he’d say.
“Screw cancer,” he’d exclaim. “I’m better than it.”