Mister Miracle Does Not Disappoint!

Everyone who comes over to the house has been pleasantly surprised to see how happy and healthy Kean looks.

He's surprised all of us too with how well he's doing.

I don't know if you remember but when he was first diagnosed and we were in the hospital freaked

out of our minds... our old Bishop from church, Ken Firmage came up to St. Luke's and gave both

Byron and I blessings.

In our religion, we believe the person giving the blessing is serving as an intermediary

and the words of hope and comfort are coming from the Lord.

In the blessing I was given, I was told Kean would "surprise the doctors with how well he handles his treatment".

Ladies and Gentlemen, we are seeing that come true.



 On Monday when we were down at the hospital getting his most recent doses of Chemo, we ran

into one of his four Pediatric Oncologists, Dr. Meeker.

Two of the other doctors had told me to plan on spending all of November and December

in the hospital since Kean will be going through the dreaded Phase 4 (Delayed Intensification).

I was asking Dr. Meeker what we should expect...whether Kean will be really sick and miserable

or if his counts will just be so low he will have to be isolated.

And guess what he told me-- he said the reason why the other doctors said to plan on being

in the hospital for all that time is because the last few Down syndrome kids they've had

have not done well at all on the Chemo (especially Phase 4).

BUT... since Kean was doing so well, we just might not be in all that much!

Now, I'm not getting my hopes up... but let's be real here.

The boy is a rock star.

He's a fighter, a "tropper" and a miracle.