Don't Stop the Prayers Yet!

I just wanted to give you a rundown of what we have left in our treatment. I think some people may have had the impression that we are completely done because of our last inpatient chemo. We still have four outpatient chemos left, 2 of which last 5 days but can be done at home. This one causes major diarrhea for the poor kid. When we finish our outpatient chemos then we have a 3-4 week waiting period until his final scans. This is where we will need lots of prayers. The scans will tell us if this long year plus of treatment has done its job and has killed the cancer completely. His last scans showed no signs of malignancy so we are hoping for the same results, but because the cancer was so aggressive this waiting period will show us if it truly is dead. After his scans the surgeons will determine if the mass that is still there is small enough to take out without any damage to nerves (sooo hoping and praying for this) and if not then they may biopsy it just to make sure. Once all of this is done then his central line will come out! yay! This is when I will start breathing again. This will hopefully be in April, early April. Once all of these procedures are done then he can start living a mostly normal life again. Taking showers, instead of me sponge bathing him, swimming, running, playing, etc, etc. For the first couple of years we have regular scans every 3 months to make sure there is no reoccuring cancer. Then after a couple of years it will be every 6 months until the last year when it will be yearly. It is crazy. I am so thankful to all of you who have been so wonderful to our family and have kept us in your prayers, but please do not take us out of your prayers yet! lol! We are so close and need the faith you bring to our family!