One Year and Counting

It was one year ago today that we first took Andrew to the pediatrician for a cold he had. They noticed that his blood counts were low, which set off the series of events that led to his diagnosis of aplastic anemia and the subsequent immunosuppressive therapy that he is still in the process of. In that year, he spent ten days at Mott Children's Hospital, has had dozens of platelet and blood transfusions, several emergency room trips, and a roller coaster ride of blood count numbers from critically low to completely normal.

At this point, Andrew is in the process of being weened off of the medications he is taking. The doctors are encouraged with where his blood count numbers are at. He has another appointment this Friday, and hopefully his numbers have steadied enough to where they can reduce his medication yet again. He has not had a blood count in three weeks, so we have no idea where they will be at on Friday. He has been generally healthy with no colds to speak of the past few weeks, so hopefully the counts will be high.

Erin and I would like to thank everyone who has supported Andrew, and our entire family, over the course of the past year. The amount of help we have received still amazes us, and it has made a difficult situation much easier to deal with. Hopefully one year from now Andrew will be done with the medication and considered recovered from this.