14Th January

Christian is doing well at the moment. The blood test last Monday showed that his liver function is back to normal. He was supposed to start his second part of delayed intensification on 6Th of January, but had to be canceled because of his blood counts being to low so hopefully next week on Tuesday he will be able to continue with his chemo therapy.
Every Monday our community nurse comes home and takes a blood from his line and phones in with the results.
On 12Th of January his blood counts were:

• Red blood cells ( contain haemoglobin which carries oxygen around body)-10.9 ( normal level 11-13g/dl
• White cell count(fight infection) - 2.7 ( normal level 5-10)
• Neutrophil count ( fight bacterial infections)-0.3 ( normal level 1.5-6)
• Platelets ( clots blood) - 349 ( normal level 150-400)

So overall very good blood count results for Christian except neutraphils, to carry on with the chemo they have to be at least 0.75 and his are 0.3 at the moment, so fingers crossed they will be up by next Monday.

In the past he had to have full blood transfusions , because his haemoglobin was very low down to 6 and platelet transfusions because his platelets were down to 10 .

This made us realise how important donating the blood is, without blood transfusions Christian's treatment wouldn't be possible.

Only 5% of population donates the blood, and donors are very needed. It takes only an hour to donate the blood and it my safe somebody's life. So if you are able please go to http://www.giveblood.co.uk/ for more information.

Christian also is in today's " The Argus" newspaper, there is an article about him and picture of him and Sebastian ( his eldest brother). Cancer research are trying to raise awareness about children with cancer and therefore they are putting stories in local newspapers.