Last Friday, as we were warned, Léo broke a fever. It wasn’t very high and it got controlled pretty quickly, which made us think that there was nothing too serious. But still, we had to get him admitted to the hospital right away and he received his antibiotics for 72h. He was really tired and not completely himself on Sunday but recovered nicely on Monday and yesterday the docs woke us up with great news: we could leave the hospital that morning and plus, Léo’s blood counts were great! He recovered very nicely and didn’t need any transfusions. A little fairy with a magic wand visited him over night: his ANC went from 90 to 400! 🙂

He is even allowed to go outside! Yesterday we stayed home most of the day (we both were tired after a rough night at the hospital… nurses woke us up pretty much every other hour!!) but at night we took him and Charlotte out for a bike ride and he had a blast! This morning I am going to take him out to see “his” fountain in our area. Then we will go to an empty park with Charlotte later on this afternoon. They both like to go there as there is grass and plenty of room to run and play!

On Monday, we will go back to clinic for a blood test. If his body is ready we will start the next course of treatment on Tuesday. We anticipate that he should be. If his ANC is high enough we will take him to the beach to enjoy the sand and the sunset before we start his rounds of hospitalizations: 4 times every other week and he will be put under for a spinal tap (and chemo in his spine) twice (once a month). He is doing this 4 times as he was originally considered as “high risk” leukemia; other kids do it only twice. Studies show that this way we lower the risk of relapse even more… so we could even do it 6 times!!! 😉

Anyway, we are off for a great week: Léo is back to himself, his appetite is back (he lost 750g in a week and should get it back just as fast!) and it feels great to see him like this! 🙂