After two spinal surgeries and three weeks of recovery at home, Owen had his first chemo treatment this week (since Sept. 19th) and he returned back to preschool at St. Pauls. It was nice to get back to our "normal" routine. Owen handled chemo fairly well, his dose remains at 80% to keep his white blood cell count within a safe range....and he was overjoyed to be back at school with his teachers and friends. Most days he was curled up in a ball under a blanket napping when I came to pick him up....but he wakes up everyday asking to go to school.
Family, friends, St. Pauls, Churchville Elem. have been so supportive and thoughtful during this time...we greatly appreciate the cards, messages, gifts, dinners and donations to the Children's Tumor Foundation. I am hoping to get around to proper thank you notes soon :)...but Owen, Joey, Joe and I continue to be so grateful for all the love and care. Hopefully Owen is back on track and we can knock through the rest of this course of chemo treatment...5 more months...
So although we returned to a fairly typical week, yesterday was anything but typical with our first snowstorm. While trying to get out to celebrate Joey's upcoming birthday, we were detoured over and over again by downed trees and spun out cars. A ten minute truck ride from Chalfont to Doylestown turned into a 45 minute adventure...finally finding a restaurant that was open after the place where we had reservations was closed because of a power outage. Joey and Owen loved spending time with their grandparents and were delighted to wrap up the afternoon with a snowball fight. We returned home to our own poweroutage and spent a few hours curled up by the fire, playing games by candle light. Today was a rush around town for groceries, grabbing last minute Halloween final costume touches, prompting Joey through hours of work on his book report, grading papers and Tom working on our new floors :) Should be a fun couple of days ahead...
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