{"id":1272,"date":"2013-01-17T23:15:24","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T06:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jacobhickford.com\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2013-01-18T10:43:13","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T17:43:13","slug":"delivered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacobhickford.com\/?p=1272","title":{"rendered":"Delivered"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been a bit MIA, I know.\u00a0 I just couldn’t bring myself to sit here and write.\u00a0 To update our last post, we ARE\u00a0at TCH.\u00a0 We tried so hard to keep Jake from being admitted and he was so cooperative in trying to stay home.\u00a0 As we wrapped him up and strapped him in the car Tuesday, Henry and I were overcome with him pleading, “Please, Mommy, please let me stay home, I took my medicines, I drank. I’ll take more medicines, Daddy. Please don’t take me to the hospital.”\u00a0 It’s so hard to hear this from your child and know the things they will do to him once he’s here, all in the name of helping him.\u00a0 These are the behind the scene things that take place in our world.\u00a0 Then the comforting begins as best as possible of how brave he is, how much we love him, how he’s done NOTHING wrong.\u00a0 When we got here, his ANC (white count) was a BIG FAT ZERO.\u00a0 His platelets were 4 and his hemoglobin was 5.2.\u00a0 For those of you medical friends, you know what this means… as much as we wanted him home, we needed to have him here.\u00a0 We did go into the ER with a plan, preparing him for what would happen and things went as well as we could hope for.\u00a0 Some good news… once we got out of the ER and to our 9th floor, home-away-from-home, we got a coveted\u00a0corner\u00a0room.\u00a0 These rooms have a big bathroom and more space – enough that I can do my workout’s with no modifications for running into anything! (Hey, you take the good with the bad.)\u00a0 As of now, he’s sleeping and his temp has gone back up to 102.\u00a0 He’s fighting mouth sores and thrush from the chemo and it may be turning into HSV.\u00a0 We’re thinking that much of this has to do with him going into chemo right after his bout with RSV.\u00a0 We went into that last chemotherapy with his counts at 65K when the baseline they look for is 75K, but because\u00a0he had a good amount of time between chemos, they felt he could push in.\u00a0 Lesson learned, he just hadn’t recovered enough.\u00a0 It’s been a tough week to say the least.\u00a0 A little boy that we follow, passed away Monday.\u00a0 Neuroblastoma took him far too early.\u00a0 This has weighed heavy on my heart.\u00a0 It wasn’t even his cancer that took him, but a random\u00a0infection.\u00a0 Jamie had actually beat his cancer once but it had returned.\u00a0To go thru so much, succeed, relapse, and then lose the battle over something small and bizarre is unthinkable. As I’ve sat in this hospital room\u00a0watching Jake’s\u00a0fever go up and down, I’ve thought about the Inglis family so much.\u00a0 Jamie liked many of the same things that Jake likes.\u00a0 He had big, beautiful,\u00a0blue eyes and blond hair like Jake.\u00a0\u00a0 He had the same, exact diagnosis as Jake.\u00a0 I’ve mentioned before…\u00a0as we get connected into this cancer community, we read each other’s\u00a0blogs, follow each other on FB daily, we are a community that loves on one another, we pray and hope for one another.\u00a0 And we all hurt for one another when our children suffer.\u00a0 And when we lose one, our hearts break,\u00a0for the reality of the situation is\"Jamie3\"<\/a>\u00a0thrust in our face.\u00a0 The fear of\u00a0how often this\u00a0happens and how unpredictable this disease is, becomes so real.\u00a0 There are happy stories, children are surviving but so many are relapsing. Neuroblastoma is cruel and the disease\u00a0may disappear\u00a0into remission for a while but\u00a0the cells\u00a0have memory and for many children, the cells regenerate in new ways\u00a0and become immune to past treatments.\u00a0\u00a0This is what\u00a0makes a relapse difficult to treat.\u00a0 Treatments become\u00a0tricky or ineffective as the body is resistant to the standard\u00a0NB\u00a0protocol.\u00a0 Every single day cancer takes\u00a0SEVEN children.\u00a0 I hurt just typing that.\u00a0 Seven families feel such unbearable loss every single day.\u00a0 This week, on Monday, January 15, 2013, Jamie took his last breath here on Earth in his mother’s arms\u00a0and he entered heaven’s doors.\u00a0 Today he sits in Jesus’ arms and while that should bring comfort, it hurts.\u00a0 We must bring awareness to this awful, awful disease.\u00a0 Please visit www.thetruth365.com<\/a>\u00a0often.\u00a0 If you are a FB’r, please *like* their site and follow them. *Share* their messages when they post.\u00a0 They are doing big things each day and there are little ways you can help that don’t take much effort or time.\u00a0 Mostly, please pray for the Inglis family.\u00a0\u00a0When I think of\u00a0all of the trauma Jake has\u00a0been through with\u00a0his treatments, I am trying to\u00a0think of Jamie as rescued, protected, and delivered perfectly and peacefully to our great Healer.\u00a0\u00a0May God bless Jamie’s family as he rests in peace.\u00a0 “Because he loves me,” says the LORD, “I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name. He will call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him.” Psalm 91:14-15<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been a bit MIA, I know.\u00a0 I just couldn’t bring myself to sit here and write.\u00a0 To update our last post, we ARE\u00a0at TCH.\u00a0 We tried so hard to keep Jake from being admitted and he was so cooperative in trying to stay home.\u00a0 As we wrapped him up and strapped him in the … <\/p>\n

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