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. |
| Good news today |
| by Anne Moore 07/27/2005 |
Good news today.
Archie’s cultures are still negative for infection, the chest x-ray the doctor ordered this
morning is clear, and Archie’s temperature hasn’t risen over 99 degrees since he was admitted
to the hospital and the intravenous fluids and medications were started.
“I don’t know,” Dr. Stroud commented. “Everything’s coming back negative so we’ll just
hang out for a few more days and see what happens.”
There’s more good news, too, if you’re a glass-half-full kind of person.
Archie’s blood counts have finally started to bottom out, something they were expected to do last
week as a result of his chemotherapy course. The numbers between today’s CBC and yesterday’s
are so drastically different that Dr. Stroud ordered another CBC taken, just in case the lab had
made an error reading Archie’s slide. But one CBC confirmed the other and we all marveled to
think that the 21 month old who had the most platelets in the whole wide world last weekend will
most likely need a platelet transfusion before the week’s out.
Archie did receive a red blood cell transfusion today as he dozed the day away and that served
to put a little color in his cheeks.
“Archie, this is what you were supposed to do last week,” Dr. Stroud scolded on his way out the
door of Archie’s room this morning. Then the doctor popped his head back in, laughing. “But when
have you ever done what you were expected to do?”
Cynthia, Archie’s nurse, told John later that children often run low-grade fevers when their blood
counts begin to drop. “Don’t worry,” she reassured him.
My father, or Archie’s Mic, is spending the night with Archie again tonight. Every night Archie’s
spent in the hospital, Mic’s spent there, too. He won’t let John stay, insisting that John needs to
take care of me. Na-Na, Archie’s new name for Gram, accompanies me to the hospital every morning and
stays with Archie and me all day. I can’t hold Archie, but his Na-Na can. And he loves it when she
does. Archie is so fortunate to have such caring and involved grandparents. And John and I are, too.
I don’t know how we’d get through this challenge without their help, especially with the twins’
impending arrival so close at hand.