Wednesday August 24 - LAST DOSE OF CHEMO!!!!

Today is a day to CELEBRATE!!!! At 2:00 this afternoon, Jacob received his very last dose of Chemotherapy!  They have finished giving him all the chemo that will work to destroy his bone marrow.  Tomorrow he gets a whole day to "REST" from chemo and clear it out of his system....YAY! And with that old yucky bone marrow gone that likes to make crazy leukemia cells, he will have room to get new healthy marrow that makes only good cells!

This day is so exciting to me because it's the day that we have been looking forward to ever since we began this crazy fight four and 1/2 months ago.  From today on, everything they do for Jacob will truly be to make him better, stronger, healthier! No more making him sick to make him better....that just never made sense to me!

We know he has a bit of a road ahead of him and he will get very sick before he gets better in the near future, but 2:00 this afternoon marked the last time that they intentionally give him something they know will make him sick and hurt him. Now we can focus on just helping him clear that poison out of his system, help him through the side effects and prevent any more damage to his body while we wait for his new bone marrow to take hold in his body. 

We are praying now that little Jericho's body is making lots and lots of healthy little stem cells in his bone marrow.  We pray that he will have an ABUNDANCE of those cells to give his brother and that they will be strong and agressively grow where they need to go, straight to Jacob's bone marrow.  Then they will multiply and start producing all the kinds of blood cells his body needs to recover and just in case there's any little sneaky leukemia cells hiding out in Jacob's body, we pray for Jericho's marrow to destroy them!