Thanks to a couple of friends we learned that it might not be as easy to just head down to a local Carter bloodcare center and give them Cutler’s name and date of birth.  So, today we reached out to Carter and created a sponsor account.  So now, if you happen to stop by or donate blood at any Carter site or sponsored blood drive you can just give them this sponsor #:  SPON 048570.  Also, we are under the belief that now that we have set up the account you should be able to just give them Cutler’s name and they will be able to track it down.

While setting up the account, the rep at Carter did happen to mention that there were several donations already in his name waiting for the account to be opened so Cutler asked that I post the video above to help him thank everyone for their donations, but also to thank everyone that follows the updates and supports us with their thoughts and prayers.  We have heard from many many many people from all over, people we know, and people we don’t know and one of the main things we have learned from this whole experience is that there is a ton of good in this world and that even a mention of “hey, we are thinking of you” goes a tremendously long way to support our spirits.  So thanks again to everyone for their thoughts and prayers.  We are completely overwhelmed with the support we have and continue to receive.

Morning y'all

So it would appear that Cutler now thinks that the 4am medicine call is also the time to wake up and start playing.  He slept quite well throughout the night, even including the wonderful force feeding of ambigel.  This medicine usually irritates him so much that he won’t back to sleep, but this morning it was not an issue.  However, come 4am when they started the chemo he was more than happy to get up and talk and play (see above photo) and even eat.  Should be fun to break him of this habit once he gets back home.

Got to meet the fourth and final doctor from the practice today as he came in for a visit earlier than any other doctor so far.  He actually was in the room by 8:15 and he had the usual good news.  But even better is that Cutler’s blast count is not detectable.  Blast cells would be the immature bad white cells, so that is a very good thing.  His white cell count continues to drop, which is customary for the chemo treatment and his blood count hovered near the same as yesterday.  Platelets dropped almost in half, but the doctor is not concerned.

Cutler is scheduled to undergo another spinal tap tomorrow morning.  This will hopefully be the last one for a bit as the previous tap showed that for all intents and purposes the leukemia was no longer present in the spinal fluid.  So this tap is to draw fluid one more time to validate as well as shoot just a bit more chemo in for good measure.  Not sure if we have mentioned before, but all of the bumps/lesions on Cutler do appear to be gone, yet another sign of the chemo working away.