I am Arjun Jain

On  June 10^th, I went to the hospital for the final treatment of the 5^th phase. I was excited about it because after today, I will be in the Maintenance phase. My ANC was 1140 and HB 10.4 so I received Vincristine and Methotrexate. I got the higher dose of Methotrexate so I was getting little sore throat when I came back but it was not as bad as it used to be.  It felt so good when the doctor started discussing about getting my port out soon because I was ready to get the medicine through the IVs in the arm in the Maintenance phase.  I went to school the next day but did not feel too good and daddy had to pick me up from the school. Every day I was getting better and on was able to attend a charity event in the name of DMCF which was very inspiring. I promised myself that I will definitely volunteer for these kind of things, once I get better. I was happy that I was able to attend the school for remaining days of the school year.

It is so crazy, that the entire school year and the flu season we were trying to protect me so I did not attend the school but then my brother got the flu on the last day of school. I was then confined to my room most of the time and lot of precautions were taken so that I do not get any infection. He started on flu  medicine and now I had to take the medicine too as a prevention. So more medicine added to my list of medicines..Great!  But now I am a pro at taking the pills by mouth that it really does not bother me. Week passed by so fast and the vacations started and I was excited because next week I was going to get my port out.