Update for Today

James blood results today show that they are high enough to start his next stage of treatment, which will go on for 41 days.  From here on in James will be considered an outpatient and will therefore receive his treatment during the day and will stay at Ronald MacDonald House at night.  

Tomorrow he will have a bone marrow aspiration which will show how his bloods are doing. The Bone marrow aspiration removes a small amount of bone marrow fluid and cells through a needle put into a bone. The bone marrow fluid and cells are checked for problems with any of the blood cells made in the bone marrow (web.md.com).

On Friday James will start his chemotherapy which is a combination of two types of medicines - trentinoin and aresenic trioxide.

Please be sure to leave a comment for James - he would love to hear from you.