I've been remiss in keeping this blog up to date with all our summer adventures, but we just passed another cancer milestone so I wanted to give an update. Jonathan went in last week for another ultrasound and bloodwork. Everything was great! No sign of cancer. Now that he's essentially 18 months off treatment, he's considered at no risk for the cancer to recur. Praise God!
I can't begin to describe how relieved we are. We have some dear friends whose daughter relapsed with leukemia right at their "all clear" milestone so I always held a little kernel of fear that we might have a last minute relapse. The ultrasound tech was a little rougher with Jonathan than what we usually experience so when his oncologist said that we're probably done with ultrasounds he got really excited that he won't need "pictures" again. We will continue to see our oncologist for good while. Our next check-up is in 3-4 months and the visits will continue to space out. We're shifting more towards monitoring long-term chemo side-effects since the risk for cancer is largely behind us. A couple of the chemos can cause significant heart damage so that's something they're keeping their eye on. He's had heart echos a few times and everything has been perfectly normal. Beyond that, we're just adjusting to life with a kindergartener! He just turned six and we had a family party and then a friend party a couple weeks later. He's really enjoying his new school adventure. I ask him what his favorite part of school is and his answer is recess and computers. ;) He's only doing half day kindergarten (all that Colorado provides by default) and has been asking if he can please go all day instead so he must be enjoying more than just recess. His school provides lots of parent volunteer opportunities and I got to be in his classroom on Monday helping with reading centers. I look forward to more opportunities to observe my kiddo "in the wild". Clara is at pre-school two days a week and loves it. Every day she asks if its a school day for her as we drive brother to school and is disappointed when its not her turn. We have her in gymnastics right now and she really enjoys that. She sure loves her brother. She usually tags along on his doctors appointments and will try to give him hugs when he's upset after a blood draw. He got particularly worked up at this last appointment and as I held him still for the blood draw I glanced over and saw her crying big tears along with her brother to see him upset. She's such a compassionate little thing. Thank you for going along on this journey with us. We could not have endured without God's faithfulness and your prayers. I'll try to do better at updating this with our family adventures so you can continue to see God working in all of our lives and especially in the walking miracle that is Jonathan. God bless you!
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Jonna Griffin
10/13/2017 05:00:09 pm
Great news God is so good!!
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