Back to School

Good news - Joshua's counts have rebounded, so tomorrow he goes back to school. He also got a treatment today to boost his immunoglobin, a part of his immune system.  Dr. Zeiber informed us that Joshua is OK to continue taking the same chemotherpy (6-MP). She will, however, try to be much more cautious about increasing his dosage due to his history of infection. So, by God's grace maybe we can continue our 2-month string of no hospital stays.

Also a cool moment today, since last night Joshua and I prayed specifically that Dr. Zeiber would tell him that he could go back to school. That's sort of big because, other than the fact that Joshua gets to see that prayer is effective, he is also realizing for the first time that something isn't right with his health. Up until now I'm pretty sure he thought that everybody went to the hospital, had a magic button, had to wash their hands incessantly. But now he's getting that the doctor tells us what we can do. So this is a new wrinkle in leukemia parenting that we will feel our way through.

Thanks for praying him back into real life.