Health Updates - Oliver

Ollie has been doing well at home. We went to clinic yesterday to get labs and talk to our oncologist. The plan right now is to finish the 14 days of antibiotics and continue to do oral chemo at home. He will get another biopsy to see what his disease is looking like before we start the next round of chemo.

We will be doing the first five days of chemo (the chemo we di...

We got our buddy home last night! It has been a long and very stressful week and we are looking forward to playing, resting, and getting the house settled again. He is so happy to be home and enjoying sleeping in his bed. We will see our oncologist again on Tuesday and then maybe have a more clear plan moving forward. For now, outpatient chemo and antibiotics are the plan for...

Oliver is back in surgery to get his central line removed. Unfortunately, the type of bacteria he has often develops a biofilm around the central line and the only way to guarantee that it doesn’t come back again is to get the line out. Hitting him with a really toxic chemo and then having a bacterial infection come back would be incredibly serious and life-threatening, so we...

Since Ollie has been admitted, he has gotten to move around a lot and has been in such a sweet mood. This chemo can technically be done out patient but we needed to do it for five days in a row and we were concerned about waiting for Monday to do it in case his disease starting gaining momentum.

He was feeling fine yesterday afternoon and asked Will to go to the playro...

Ollie is all checked in at UNC and ready for his first night. We will start a primer chemo tonight and will continue it for the next four days. He should be pretty bored and won’t feel the negative side effects until we start more of the “hard hitting” chemo next week.

Thank you all for your prayers and Sutro connections. They have signed an agreement but early estimat...