YO YO YO

Well, its decided-the chemo has officially gone to his head-literally and figuratively. My son, who has hardly been 10 miles outside of Orange County-except to go to Las Vegas and SC-thinks he is a gangsta. He is sportin the Bling that Dad's friend Ira sent to him in the mail and he looks so cool-bald head in all, completes the look don't you think? Too funny.

As you can probably guess we are finally home after 6 grueling days of our Kaiser timeshare. Only grueling because Aidan felt so lousy at first and then after a few days felt better but of course we still had to stay until his counts went up enough that it was safe for him to leave. We left late Thursday and got home just in time for Aidan to hole up in his bedroom for a few solid hours of play. He had a lot of catching up to do with all of his toys and video games. They missed each other!!!! I really haven't done much of anything for the past two days-I get so zombified with hospital hours, it takes me so much longer than Aidan to readjust. I have a new appreciation for my privacy though. We have the best nurses you can get but when they are in and out so much it makes you want to cry. Thursday morning thank goodness I remembered to bring my clean clothes in the bathroom with me because when I came out the Dr. was sitting on the bed playing video games with Aidan. Mind you it was 8am. This Dr. has decided that he is going to adopt Aidan so when Dr. Ruki found out she was highly insulted that she was not on the top of the Aidan adoption list!!! This of course leaves Aidan beaming from ear to ear!

Thursday morning Aidan after the 8am Dr. visit, Aidan had his 3rd Bone Marrow Aspiration. Sad to say but this is getting easier every time. He SWEARS he was awake thru the whole thing but I watched what the Dr. was doing to his back (not for the faint of heart) and there was NO WAY this kid was awake. This time an anestheiologist was in charge of the drugging and he gave hims something really good. Not sure of what he used but there were no side effects at all-he woke up a few minutes after the procedure and didnt have hardly any of the loopiness that he has with the Versed/ketamine combo. After that they put a bandaid on and he's good to go.

Monday is a clinic visit and then we'll talk about checking back in for chemo. For now we will enjoy being holed up at home away from the germy world for a while.

love you
Aimee