In the hospital again...but only for one night!! We went back to the hospital on Tuesday night so we could start Eli on his new round of chemo. We are in the "consolidation" phase of the treatment, so we have all new drugs. We had an MRI, Spinal Tap, and bone marrow aspirate done on Tuesday morning, so the doc said we should just stay the night while they gave hime the chemo. We were able to come home on Wednesday although the discharge time took so long I was going crazy!!

The tests all came back positive, and the MRI showed that although the brain lesions have not gone away completely, they are now significantly smaller...yea!! There is still no leukemia in his central nervous system, and his marrow is recovering well.

Now we will go to the clinic once a week for a spinal tap and he is taking meds here at home and he is getting shots at home administered by a home health care nurse (thank goodness, I was scared we were going to have to do it ourselves!!) He seems to be handling the meds pretty well, and he is still doing well.

Eli is talking so much, I think John and I had forgotten how verbal he is....when we were in the hospital he really stopped talking, sometimes altogether. You can tell how much happier he is now and so are we!!!!