Our last dose of high dose methotrexate is over!!! Yea!!! John hurried the nurses up and they were able to go home early Saturday morning. Eli handled everything well....but it was a challenge. He never wanted to play in the "new" little playroom, and it is not much fun sitting in the room watching TV. He got really crabby, and that is tough. But we are finished with the hospital stays for methotrexate and I am thankful that it went much better overall then I could have ever expected.

We now have about 3 weeks of fairly easy stuff. We will continue to take the chemo 6-mp at home, but nothing else. The last week we won't have any chemo at all. Then we start the dreaded "Delayed Intensification". Eli's left toe is still looking angry, I have a feeling this will be an ongoing battle for our entire treatment. The podiatrist did not come by while we were in the hospital, and they have told us that they really don't like working on small children. So, we will continue to soak in betadine and they have called in an antibiotic. We go back to the clinic on Wednesday, but it will just be a finger poke and then we are done.

The older boys don't have any camp this week. (This is the one week all summer.) So, Sam learned how to ride his bike without training wheels today....he did such a fantastic job, I was sooooo proud. Cher is going to take them to the movies tomorrow while I watch the little guys. I don't think I thought about how much we relied on the pool in the summer until now that we can't go...I was wanting to take them to the beach one evening, but with Eli's toe looking bad I am not quite comfortable.

Thanks for checking in....Please pray that we get no mouthsores, that his counts stay up, and that Eli continues to feel good.