Yesterday – Saturday morning – I drove to the hospital with a Starbucks drop-off and laundry pick-up. This is my time with AJ to check in with him and see how things are going. What I felt from AJ was the enormous stress with which he and Amanda are burdened. Their child is fighting a life-threatening disease. Medical treatment is taking its toll on both Logan and the family. The sleep deprivation is real and stressful. Confinement in the hospital room 24/7 is prison-like. Certainly Amanda and AJ are lucky to be with Logan and limit the “in’s and out’s” from the hospital to minimize Logan’s possible infections. But with any choice, consequences exist. For them it is finding a gargantuan amount of patience and understanding and living it every day. They are SO good with Logan. Your continued prayers are needed to give them strength. The weight of their burden had me crying the entire drive home.
Logan is bruising due to his lack of body mechanisms to repair little injuries. The blood system in a healthy body easily handles this, but the chemo has destroyed that ability. He received a unit of blood on Friday, and platelets on Saturday. His face is puffy. If you, like me, a platelet donor over the years who wondered where the platelets go, wonder no more. Patients like Logan receive them. And now on Sunday – today – Logan’s last round 1 chemo treatment is complete. His body needs to recover in the hospital from this poisoning for a couple of weeks, then round 2. Now, we wait.
Thank you so much for these updates. Mike Harris is my husband’s cousin, so we are quite concerned about Logan. I’m praying for this little one!
Thanks John for keeping us updated. Continued prayers for your family and little baby
Thank you for the update. Praying
Thank you for this update, they are all in our thoughts and prayers. 🙏🙏🙏