Done with third and final round of chemo... Hopefully!!

Hello all-

I apologize for the lag in updates... thanks for the patience and continued support.

It has been a busy last couple of weeks!! Jordon was up and down the week of Thanksgiving. Just general overall feeling blah and a slight fever. Which was a bit of a concern temporarily. He made it through and then off to the next, and hopefully final round.

So Jordon went in to the Oncologist office with Brooke on Thursday the 4th to get his blood work done to check his counts. They were good enough for him to be admitted the same day to start his final round. Which is how it usually works on the third week in between rounds.

Anyway, he was admitted on Thursday and then usually the first day they get him hydrated properly. Once that is done they are able to start his rounds of chemo. He gets his chemo dripped in slowly over about a four to five hour period.

Then they give a ton of fluids via his port over the next 18 to 20 hours before the next dose of chemo, and so on each day. As well as any anti nausea meds through out the day. Chemo is administered every 24 hours over three to four days every three weeks roughly.

So he was/is very run down and just plain old tired from the chemo and meds. Not to mention just being in a hospital for multiple days on end... Poor guy!!

He has been a champion through the whole thing. He has really only complained about the bone pain after his rounds of chemo. He has said many a time that, "chemo really sucks"... I think it has been much harder on him then he lets on.

He is behind in school and is/has been working at getting caught up. He is planning on getting back into the swing of things ASAP. He has finals this and next week, then he will be on winter break for two weeks.

We are all hoping that his life will become more normal with school, soccer, and socially after the break.

When he returns from winter break, he should be stabilizing and become much more normal in his daily life... We will know by then if the tumor has shrunk or is gone and if his tumor markers are normal again.

God willing, he will only have to endure this one round he just completed.

So far he has only lost about 12 to 15 lbs, even though his appetite has been pretty good. He has lost that beautiful head of hair as well. (but that will come back soon)

His High School Soccer team , coach and families have been awesome in their support. As well as the school and all his teachers and students at Mesquite.

There are so many people, groups, individuals to thank during this whole experience. The support and prayers, and donations have been very much appreciated and needed. You all know who you are and we can't thank you enough.

I ask that you keep us all in your prayers. We will keep Fighting On and helping Jordon beat his cancer into remission.

We will do a better job on the updates as well. So the next post will hopefully be nothing but good news...

Blessings to all,

The Perry's