Boy did that week just fly by! I am sooo glad it is Friday night. I just put Owen to bed, checked in on facebook (which after much persuasion from some friends and my brother I have decided against better judgment to try it out) and I am getting ready for a long session of Rock Band with Joey. Joey is really good on vocals and I am having a hard time deciding which I like better the drums or guitar. We really need a third member of our band but Owen stinks :) and Joe has still not succumb to Joey and my pleadings to join us. We need to get better to duel the Porco family now that they are also addicted. Personally I would like to get better at the guitar because I know my buddy Alex sometimes needs a fill in and her band rocks! blogging...facebook and rock band I am starting to feel uber-geeky and need to get out of the house more!
On Monday I took the boys to the high school for the MLK community service project. Such a great experience especially for Joey. He gets involved right away and just starts working alongside the sixth graders. So nice that when we leave the first thing he asks me is if we'll do it again next year.
Tuesday Owen had chemo and we got the test results back from the MRI. Chemo went as usual although Owen is now receiving a slightly higher dosage of Carboplatin since he has maintained the necessary weight for the past few weeks. We were warned that he might be more nauseous this week but other than an awful cold, he has reacted as he normally does. The MRI results showed that the tumors remained stable. The doctors view this as positive which can be somewhat frustrating and hard to understand because by now one would hope the tumors would start to shrink. I was told since optic gliomas are slow growing tumors they expect them to also slowly shrink. Owen goes back for his next treatment on Monday. I am really hoping he shakes this cold so that we don't end up in a three night stay at CHOP. So we are planning to lay low this weekend and get through it.
Happy Weekend... Oh, I am still having technical problems so still no new pictures. I must say seeing the boys faces up on this page is my favorite part of blogging so I am hoping my wonderfully tech-savvy husband will fix the problem soon...that is not sarcasm Joe.
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