Update 5/5/09

After a quick trip up to Iowa City (if you call 4 hours (there and back) of driving for a 15 minute blood draw quick) we got the news that Beck's platelets have made a jump to 19. That's right, 19! Can you believe it? Neither could we. Now we are only hoping that this is not another quick platelet spike like the last time, but the beginning of a trend...and trend that keeps going up and up. The other lab results showed that his hemoglobin is still quite low (a blood transfusion is still not quite needed), his magnesium is back to normal (thanks to his new magnesium supplement), his "B" cells are still destroyed (so no Rituxin this week), and his IMG levels are back up (meaning that he will need another IVIG treatment soon).

We will continue to hang out at home, as Beckham is still so extremely immuno suppressed and can't be around others. We are actually making the best of the time we spend inside with me potty training Gwen (don't get me started....ahhhh!), trying to teach Beckham to say "mommy" (to which he smiles and says "no" or "daddy." I honestly have no idea why he refuses to say "mommy" when he says almost everything else and even puts words together like "get down," or "here you go"), and enjoying the warm weather that mother nature has finally agreed to send us. Staying inside is never easy, but truthfully we are just fine with it. At least we are at home right?

Thank you over and over for all of the continual prayers on Beckham's behalf, for we have truly felt all of them, and continue to feel them.