What a week....

So we are excited to say Max is doing really well with all his treatments and it seems medically things have settled down and got into more of a routine, now if we could only say that for the rest of life, but I guess chaos is a given when you are parenting twin 1 year olds and a three year old.  =)

Last week Max and Molly came down with the stomach flu which was loads of fun, then Josh and I were excited to celebrate our 7 year wedding anniversary this last weekend when we instead got to fight the stomach flu side by side. How romantic right?


Before


We had a few other exciting scares this week leading up to last night when Max had a nasty spill and split his lip in just the right place.  It was gaping open and the side of his lip was hanging off his face, after I got the blood cleaned up I noticed that his teeth pierced his lip and it went through and through. Josh had an evening work event and I wasn't able to reach him so I called in the calvary to help with the girls and rushed Max down to the ER at Children's.  Luckily with him being an oncology patient we get "special" treatment and they had a room waiting for us when we got there and a staff of ER doctors and nurses ready to get started.   It is really a good thing I have a diagnosis for Max's clumsiness because I still cringe as new doctors do their examinations and bruise counts and of course last night was no exception - poor boy was riddled with bruises all over his body and I was sure they were going to call the police on me.   We opted to try to treat him with some medication to relax him rather than the full anesthesia since they would have had to check us in to the hospital overnight.   He like always was the model patient, you wouldn't have even known he was in pain.  He flirted with all the nurses and tried to flash his charming smile at everyone who walked by his room, of course his smile was slightly deformed because of the hole in his lip, but that didn't stop him from trying.  They were able to get him fixed up with 4 intricate clear dissolvable stitches on the outside of his lip (the inside should heal on its own), he was wide awake and watched the whole thing, he held still and did what he was asked except he kept trying to give the dr kisses while she was sewing so we had to take a few kiss breaks.



After

 He came away with stickers, bubbles, new stuffed animal friends and a whole ER full of staff ready to take Max home with them.  A blessing was the timing of this, his platelet counts are at the highest they will be in his treatment cycle so no need for transfusions or special treatment for that and he has been taking a prophlayctic or preventive antibiotic so we didn't have to have him admitted for IV antibiotics. No new prescriptions needed just his normal oxycodone and lots of ice cream (to help with the swelling of course). We didn't have to spend the night and were able to get home at a somewhat decent hour. We are hoping that this spill doesn't change his charming smile, but so far you can hardly even notice the stitches when you look at him.