This is a story about my seven year old son Matthew and his journey and struggles with having cancer. It also will have reflections from Matthew's Father John, Mother Kat, and twelve year old sister Kyra. On August 14th 2009 at about 11 p.m. Matthew was diagnosed with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia and all of our lives were changed forever. Hopefully one day when Matthew grows up he can read this, and also maybe someone who is newly diagnosed can read this blog and find comfort.
Saturday, December 17, 2011
CNS seizure
Towards the end of April 2010 with taking medication for his yeast fungal infection and still not doing so well, he had a CNS (central nervous system) seizure and once again we that we were going to loose our battle. He went through many tests and by mid afternoon he was back to normal. These seizures are well known with patients taking intrafecal methotrexate and oral and it is basically a build up the medication in his system that creates a toxicity and therefore a seizure. Most often it is a one time occurance, but we opted to have a pre dosing of amanophaline and a post dose when he had his interfecal poke in his spine. Amanophaline is used with asthamitics and constricts blood vessels and makes him very hyper...No more seizures since that one occurance
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