Hello to All - Finally a point for Team BO! Bo had a scan today that showed the chemo, Altima, is shrinking the tumors on his liver. The doctors also believe that his bones are trying to heal themselves as well. So today we did another round of chemo and added an additional medicine to help with his bone growth. The bone growth might make Bo feel achy, but will hopefully help with the healing. So yeah, yeah, yeah.
Dr. Crawford did let us know that Altima has just been approved as a maintenance drug and treatment plan. What that means for us is that we will not count this chemo in cycles or how many times we will do it. There will be no number limit, we will stop when this is too much for Bo to handle or when/dare I say if the cancer comes back. Then obviously it isn't working anymore. This type of chemo is different than the "typical" chemos people take. Bo should keep his hair and hopefully as the cancer keeps leaving his body he will get stronger and so therefore there will be less and less side effects.
We are being cautiously optimistic, taking today to be happy. But we do realize reality. But one day daring to "Dream Big" hopefully won't hurt.
Love to All
Christi, Bo and Sweet Addi
PS I made the parental decision to make sure Addi's first car is an Altima!