Adjusting to life with recently diagnosed three year old with Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (as told by his mom, Michelle)

5.27.2005

so we went today & a cbc was done. the dr said something to the effect how he would suspect hepatitis except caleb is not showing the symptoms that would go along with that (no fever & acting just fine & bilirubin is normal!!!). his liver "ast" was 41 on 3/25, now it's in the two thousands & his "alt" was 54 & now it's in the thousands as well so we're hoping it's just some sort of lab error. an ultrasound is gonna be done on tuesday cause nobody was available today (& monday is a holiday). the dr isn't too worried cause caleb's been acting normal so we're not too worried either. as a precaution he stopped two of caleb's meds that could affect the liver (mercaptopurine & methotrexate) until we can get to the bottom of those funky numbers. his counts all dropped very slightly but they are fine according to the dr...
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