Delayed Intensification Delayed

If there was ever a name to sum up high school years, delayed intensification might be it.  The period right before we hit college and really become, or reinvent, ourselves into our future selves.  Well this is the name of round 4.

To go back to the beginning, Harry has 9 rounds of treatment.  This week begins round 4.  Delayed Intensification.  Or should have started.  After spending the morning at the hospital, it was found he did not make the counts.  To begin he needed his ANC at 700.  (Our usual basis is a minimum of 500 for Sushi.).  His number was 420.  So not even sushi for lunch.


Normal                   Harry 6/18    7/21   7/23    8/1      8/11   8/18    8/29     9/11   9/26.      11/10
Hemoglobin  12-16      14.1           8.7     7.4     7.3       10.6     8.9      6.9       9.8    11.7        13.5
Platelets 150-350        235             89       65      370      309     169     40         362    369        252
WBC  5000-10000     8750           2006   100    640      3390   1930    1850    2580  6940    1740
ANC. Above 1500.                      1150    270       50     1620    880     1210     1148  4990     470

But speaking of rounds, yesterday was the Hope for Henry Fight For Kids event featuring 3 boxers -  Chazz Witherspoon, Demarcus Corley & Mia St. John.  Harry hung out a bit with Chazz Witherspoon.  Harry actually boxed a bit at LA Boxing.  And had a punching ball on his room.  While he is presently unable to box, Chazz told him to continue to shadow box but most importantly box mentally.  (And I believe there could be a fabulous new low impact workout class - mental boxing/physical sleeping.  Combo of nap time with just the desire to get exercise.  Maybe the next [solidcore] for the lazy and out of shape?).

For those who don't know about Hope for Henry, it was started by my friend Laurie Strongin in memory of her son Henry who also had a rare form of cancer.  Laurie has dedicated her life to providing fun and a bit of normality to children facing long term hospital stays.  She organizes regular holiday parties, birthday presents, and even makeovers for the teens!  For more about It -www.HopeforHenry.org

In the meantime, we want to thank our cousin Julie Rosenberg, the wife of Fredric and the mother of Hamilton, for running in the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Moms in Training.  As a participant, she will run a 4 mile race in November to bring greater awareness to families with children in treatment. Fredric has also signed up to run the race, although he is doing his own training! For the Rosenberg-Weinstein clan her page is , http://pages.teamintraining.org/nyc/momintrn14/jmrosenberg.  And there are more cute photos of Hamilton! It means a lot to all of us, Julie. We are really touched.

Julie & Hamilton in training

On Saturday Harry joined the JPDS gang to celebrate the fabulous Ally Knapp's Bat Mitzvah!   He biked over during the day and he danced most of the night.  (And they thought he could not handle chemo this week?) A big Mazel Tov to the entire Milbauer Knapp mishpacha.

We try again next Monday.