Clear Scans!

We saw Dr. Watanabe today and all of the scans were clear! We also saw Dr Seidel (the orthopedic oncology surgeon) yesterday and he thought the bone graft looked great and that he is walking well for where he is at. Yea!

The only disappointing news that we got is that Aaron's antibodies are low, and his T cells are low, so what this means is still no preschool and no Sunday School. We had been told that he could do that at the end of September and he was looking forward to it, so I am disappointed that this has to be postponed I know that this is nothing big, but he is so excited for school. Dr Watanabe did say that we could do a smaller program such as Kuman or something similar where he would only be exposed to a few other children. I think I will sign him up for something like this and we'll just call it school! I'm thinking primarily here of the social interaction, and just the normalcy of school. I can obviously work with him at home, but he needs to be around other preschoolers.

So please pray that his body continues to improve and especially that the T-cells continue to multiply. If there is not improvement they can do another infusion of his stem cells, but ideally his body will recover without that.

Next scans are the first week of December, and then he will most likely have his port removed as well as it is an infection risk.

Thanks!
Barbara

Here is a little video from Aaron at Physical Therapy last week - This day he did a whole obstacle course and got to climb over lots of things then up and down a ladder!:

No news is good news

Well, it's Friday afternoon and no phone call, so I am pretty confident that the scans were clear. We won't get the definitive word until Wednesday, but it would be extremely unlikely that they are just sitting on this information. We went back today for EKG, Echo, and xrays and he did great and was really cooperative.

Also, I think I found the perfect part-time job. It starts mid-October, and it is afterschool math tutoring through the No Child Left Behind program. I'd be working as an independent contractor through Mathnasium working at two Title I schools in the West Valley. The pay is much higher than most part-time jobs I've looked at, and the hours are really perfect as I would work approximately 2:30 - 5 and do administrative work from home according to my schedule. I think it is going to really be a good thing.

Thanks for all of the support and prayer through the waiting!