Ethan's Cousin, Eryleigh

Ok, so Ethan was telling me that I should brag a little on his new cousin. Miss Eryleigh Meridian Sheetz was born on September 17th. She has two big brothers, Sebastian, 12 and Jaidyn, 10. Miss Eryleigh certainly kept everyone on their toes during Ethan's Auntie Kimmy's pregnacy, that's for sure!!! Well, she was over NINE POUNDS when she was born and is just so cute! Eryleigh was sent an ultra-cute Adidas sweat outfit from her Uncle Scotty and she just looks so "born-to-play-soccer"! :-)

It is hard to be so far away from the newest member of our family, but Auntie Kimmy keeps us up to date with lots of pictures- courtesy of Shutterfly!!!

Test Results

It seems that we may have an answer to all of the fevers! It appears that Ethan has a significant B-cell deficiency. What does that mean? In non-confusing terms, it means that he can't fight off illness that attacks his B-cells because he doesn't have enough of them to fight off anything. How do we fix it? Well, more blood was drawn today, but he will probably have to have routine IVIG transfusions (I like to call it immunity in a bottle). The enzyme that they were making sure was present in order to metabolize his 6-MP (chemo pill) is present, so that wasn't the problem and no other obvious problems have come back from the bone marrow (great news).

So, Ethan is back at school and doing great! He had a great speech therapy session yesterday! He was bribed with his "foot". His Aunt Kamrin finds the foot deeply disturbing...

I am still not feeling well, so I am going to stay home and try to get better. Stuffy noses and heads are never any fun!

Ethan was so tired the other night that he started to fall asleep on the floor with his snake!

Here's to another two weeks of feeling well!

Bone Marrow Biopsy & Tests

Hi! I just received the BEST news! Ethan is still leukemia-free! There were a LOT of tests ran yesterday, but most of them could take weeks for us to know the results. Of course the biggest fear is always that the leukemia trying to resurface, but in Ethan's case- it is not! The doctors really didn't feel that he was relapsing, but it had to be ruled out (Happy Faces). Thank you SO much for your prayers! They worked!

I am actually home with the booger today because he spiked a fever for some reason (dr. says it could have been a reaction to the anesthesia), but since it was over 101 degrees, I had to keep Ethan out of school. I knew that he probably wasn't contagious, but rules are rules...

Have a GREAT weekend everyone, ours just got better!
Hugs, Kristen, Scott, & Ethan