Quiet Weekend

Saturday evening has almost past. The weekend has been uneventful, thankfully. Emily, Kevin and Grant arrived home about 6:30 pm yesterday. They were very glad to be home, and Grant had a good time showing his brother and sister his toys and games from the week at the hospital.

Today Grant went to the ball field to watch his team play. He did some swinging (on a swing!) and had a good time. He sure felt better than he did a week ago, and if it was not for worrying about him catching a cold or some infection from someone, he could really enjoy playing with all of his buddies! This evening Andrew and Logan (his neighbor friends) came over and played in the driveway for a while. Grant was just really enjoying being outside and throwing a frisby disk.

Tomorrow Em, Kevin, and Grant will go back up to Chapel Hill. He has chemo on Monday morning at the outpatient clinic, and then he'll go over to the hospital at noon and have another lumbar puncture (spinal tap) and bone marrow extraction. They will lay him asleep again for this, so it is his third surgery in a week. Grant will be able to come home after he wakes up and remains under observation for a short while, so they should all be home by Monday evening.

This phase of treatment is called induction. It will take about 4 weeks of intensive chemo, and at the end of this phase, he will hopefully be in remission. That's a good word.

Well, time to head to bed! The news remains very good at this point, and we will continue to hope and pray for things to keep going in this direction. Thanks for your love once again.

Mama Susan