Brooks Call Blog: The waiting game...

Brooks' Story

On December 28, 2009, Brooks Call was diagnosed with acute Myeloid leukemia (AML), also known as acute myelogenous leukemia. AML is a very aggressive cancer that starts in the bone marrow and keeps the blood cells from maturing the way they should. Brooks is 13 years old and is the son of Greg and Lisa Call. He has two younger brothers, Ethan and Nic.

Along with our prayers, well wishes, and positive thoughts for Brooks, what can we do to help Brooks and his family? Our goal is to allow all family and friends to assist Greg and Lisa with any funding we can donate for the many expenses that will be involved in keeping Brooks going strong. Not only would we like to contribute to help with the mounting medical bills, but also for gas, babysitting, food while staying with Brooks at the hospital, and many other expenses.

Please look at the "Please Help Brooks" section on how-to-donate. We have made it very easy for all family and friends to help out – where ever you are! Please donate, and pass along this notice to all of your family and friends. Have them go to this blog to find out more information on how to donate and get updates on Brooks!

http://brookscall.blogspot.com/
Thanks, from all Brooks’ Family!

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Thursday, February 11, 2010

The waiting game...

Brooks' second round of chemo was complete on Saturday, February 6th. Things have been going okay. Brooks did a good job of not getting too sick to his stomach. His counts dropped to zero yesterday, so he has no immune system. On Wednesday, they were showing Lisa an infection that Brooks has in his central line. They cleaned him as much as they could, and started him on some antibiotics to help clear up the infection. Because his body really doesn't protect him from anything, the medication to clean the central line burned his skin pretty bad. He still needs all of our prayers and good thoughts. Everyone is just sitting tight, waiting for him to start producing good blood cells...