Gavin's Updates

Well, we *almost* made it through this journey without a hitch. Gavin spiked a fever Tuesday morning, so his oncology team told us to bring him to the James immediately. In Chemo patients, anything over 100.4 is considered emergent. His fever reached 102.2 before we arrived. He tested positive for the Flu. His heart is having a hard time with the virus and his heart rate is staying elevated, and he is also producing a heart protein that shows trauma/stress to the heart- so they have admitted him. He is slowly feeling better, we are hopeful they can get him sorted out in the next few days so he can finish recovery at home.

Finally back home 😊

Today we got results of Gavin’s PET scan from yesterday- Dr said he has had “COMPLETE RESPONSE” to the Chemo!! 😭🙌🏼💕

Today was chemo #5, then early November is this 6th and final one. Then 3 month checkups for 2 years, then every 6 months for years 3-5.

This first pic compares yesterdays scans vs. 3 months ago. The dark circle in his chest is his heart; the rest of the dark matter on the right was the cancer.

Looking back to the picture of his chest the night of the first chemo- it’s so shocking. Over the last 3 months it has melted away, just like the Dr had said.

We were so happy to have his brother tag-a-long for this treatment. 💙 Hoping he continues to tolerate the chemo well for these last few rounds.

Only one more to go- we’ve got this!!! 💪🏼