The transplant team in the mean time has come up with a plan for Mason's rejection. His DSA's (donor specific antibody blood work) came back and showed he definitely still has a lot of of the bad antibodies fighting against his beautiful heart. He will never have 0 DSA's because he has had quite a few since the beginning of his transplant, but we need to get the amount down so that his heart is happy and rejection free. (The good news is that his heart function remains great! ). The plan is to keep him on his moderately low dose of steroids, with no large pulse dose this time (hooray), but instead to go up to his max dose of Celcept. He has already been on his max dose of Prograf so that will stay the same. Doing this suppresses his immune system more put not as much as high doses of steroids. Mason will also continue IVIg treatments now monthly. ( Which was actually approved by the insurance this time to treat his rejection.....great news!) Mason will be seen at transplant clinic 2x a month with a repeat biopsy in June. We go next week to clinic and the team said they may also add one more immune suppressant that he hasn't been before at that time.
March brought us Spring, some sunny days, and lots of wind! And of course, here in Utah we even got some rain and snow! But, on those sunny days it was so nice to get outside and play! Here's what we were up to in March.....
Fun at the park! Hooray for Spring!
Mason just could not wait any longer
to get out his police car and take it for a
spin or even give his little cousin James
some driving lessons!
Baseball March Madness in sunny St George with the family.....
Braiden, cousin Peter, and their whole team played Great!
They took 3rd place in the tournament out of 47 teams!
Miracle Mason is still their #1 fan! Go Clutch!
Mason was sick our first day in St George so he and I stayed behind, but Mark and the kids went and hiked the Dixie Rock. They had fun and took some awesome pictures!
(From top to bottom: Kaitlin, Preston
cousin Peter, Braiden, and Ammon)
Ammon and Braiden received several awards at
March's cubscout pack meeting. Braiden earned his
Arrow of light and moved on to 11 year old scouts.
Good job boys!
(Thank goodness for their wonderful scout leaders!)
This was Mason's biopsy day on March 20th....
It was very unlike him, but he was sad and
whiny when we checked in at Primary's that day.
Poor little guy!
(I couldn't get my pictures to load on to the
blog when I posted with his biopsy results.)
With a little rest and extra TLC,
just one night in the hospital did the trick!
I'll take one night at the hospital any time
with my Miracle Mason!
Cheers to a healthy and happy Spring!!!
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