Lucas is a fun-loving, humorous, caring, loving child. He is all boy in the sense that he loves to talk about bodily functions, he loves to roughhouse, loves superhero’s, getting dirty, etc. His favorite thing is batman. He is very smart and picks up on things quickly.
In the beginning of 2016, Lucas was having reoccurring fevers, stomach aches, leg pain and fatigue. On January 14, 2016 he was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia or ALL.
Right now we are in the maintenance phase of treatment. This includes monthly IV chemo, nightly oral chemo at home, and a spinal tap with chemo every three months. He deals with low blood sugar from time to time so especially on the spinal tap days where he cannot eat because of sedation, they have to give him dextrose. He also experiences episodes of strider when under the sedation medication. This means close monitoring and they have tweaked his medications to try to help prevent this from occurring. It brings fear to our family every time he needs sedation between the possibility of his blood sugars dropping and him not breathing.
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