Counts:
WBC 4570 (normal 5000-11000)
ANC 2770 (2000-6000)
Hemoglobin 12.6 (11.0-15.0)

As you can see, our counts are wonderful...so we have been enjoying this great week.

The boys and I went to the clinic on Monday morning to get Eli's intermuscular PEG shots. They went off well...although we were there most of the day. With his counts being up John and I decided to take the kids to the baseball game on Tues night for the fireworks. (After asking the doc of course) It was by far the most crowded place that we have been in the past 7 months, and I was really nervous..even with Eli's mask on and us being outside. But the boys had such a great time. We also went to the aquarium in the early AM before anyone showed up...we have done that three times lateley.

Wednesday we had a great time at the pool with all of our Daniel Island neighbors. We had the annual parade and pool party...what a good time. Unfortunately, Eli's chemo day is Wednesday and chemo waits for no man or child...so John was at the hospital with Eli getting his treatment. ( Do I have a great husband or what?!) Everything went fine and John was home by 3 or so, and we had his mom, the Lawrence family and the Valdez family over for home fireworks. Eli was asleep by 7:30...he had a late night at the game, then a hard day at the hospital.

I took the boys to get pics taken this morning. I decided in November when Eli turned two to take a pic of all the boys at Easter instead of some then.....little did I know that our spring was going to be full of days when we couldn't have gone anywhere. So, I had not yet gotten the pics taken. With his counts being so good, I took him. Well...needless to say, there is a challenge taking a two year old on steroids to take pictures. But we got a couple of good ones (I will try to post them) so I was happy.

With the 4th of July week here, I have been saying prayers for those that have sacrificed to keep this country what it is....I was talking to a friend the other day about what it would be like going through this in a third world country (or worse)....would we have the odds that we do now? We are blessed to be in this country where we have the availability of such wonderful doctors and nurses to take care of our children when we need them....sappy, I know, but just a thought.

Hope ya'll had a good holiday, too. Take care and I will tell you how things go next week.

Livestrong,

Maria