A Milestone

Kean and I celebrated tonight with a walk and a yummy dinner Elly Moomey brought over.

Byron and the girls are still on their camp-o-rama.

We had Chemo today...

a Chemo treatment that's quite significant in our world.

Kim Leach was our fun date at the hospital.



Today marks the final day of all the hard core Chemo phases.

We get two whole weeks off before starting the Maintenance phase..

the phase we've been pacing ourselves and praying that Kean would be

strong enough to make it to.

He will continue to get Chemo until September 13, 2015... but some of

the more wicked Chemotherapy drugs (the ones that make his hair fall out

and send him to the hospital etc.), are behind us. 

Dr. Camilo told us that a lot of parents fall into a depression

when they finally get to where we are.

My dear cousin who went through this same trial with her daughter

put it like this.. she said so many months are spent in survival mode,

just trying to operate under such extreme stress that when you finally

get to this goal of Maintenance-- you collapse from the sheer exhaustion

of the intense pressure of trying to keep your child alive, minimize his pain and

hold the rest of your family together.

I have so much support and I've had that support all along this journey,

that I think I'm in a pretty good place to handle this transition.

We still have a long, icky haul but I firmly believe the worst

is behind us.

By the way, Dr. Camilo told us today that Kean has done "much better

than he ever expected".  Dr. Camilo is a man of few words...

so coming from him, that was huge.

We have so much to be thankful for, don't we!