Summer’s finally here!

Well, our family spent a wonderful week in Florida last week enjoying the beginning of summer…the reason for no updates!

Highlights: the beach, no school, the ice cream truck in the afternoon, searching for unbroken shells…and tons of fun pictures of it all (to follow in a later post!). The craziest part? Twelve hours in the car with all four kids each way! Thankfully, Gage felt great the entire time (unlike last year at the beach), and we had no unexpected medical issues. A huge praise.

And, after a day back, we headed to Children’s this morning for the visit we do every 12 weeks: finger poke to check blood counts, visit with the doctor, breathing treatment (to protect Gage from a type of pneumonia that immune-suppressed people are vulnerable to), chemo in his port, chemo in his spinal fluid via a spinal tap…and then begin a week of twice-daily steroids, in addition to his usual nightly chemo.

Needless to say, we’re all pretty exhausted from both the fun things, like Florida, and the not-fun things, like a very long day at clinic…and a hard week to come on steroids.

Thanks for checking in, and please remember us in your prayers this week.

Also, we’ve loved seeing the responses come in to our June 20th event…hope you can join us!!

RH