Eli's Team 2009...missing Krissie, Diane, and Toni


Hey. I know I haven't updated in a while, and things here have been crazy. I am going to let Jacob tell you about our past couple of weeks.

Hi!!! I know I've have never written to you guys before, and apologize if it's not good. It is true, we have our last couple of weeks really crazy. My mom walked the the half-marathon and when my friend, Matthew, and I opened the window, we saw the streets littered with runners. I couldn't believe how many runners there was. Oh, and you might want to know Eli was with my dad and Sam, and Eli just puked all over my dad. I just learned that Eli meant to to puke. He gagged and just vomited. Back to the story. Good-night. In the next published posts, I'll write more.

That was Jacob writing some...he had to got to bed so I will finish. The weekend after the marathon John went on a much deserved boys weekend to play golf. I don't think he has done this since Eli was dx. So, as Murphy would have it, Eli ran a fever on Friday night. I had to call Sallie at 2am for her to come over and sleep while we went to the ER. They sent us home at 7am after looking at his bloodwork (which had come up) and given him the first round of IV antibiotics. We kept his port accessed and I gave him the remainder of his antibiotics at home over the weekend.

Last week found us with the stomach bug. I won't go into detail, but suffice it to say that we were 5 for 5 and none of us had a great weekend. I think E might have picked it up at clinic on Monday. They have been seeing alot of this bug and he was the first one to loose his cookies on Tuesday night. So that brought us back to the clinic on Wednesday to spend the day getting fluids. We were able to come home, thank God, and Eli was recovering. What Jacob was writing about was tonight. We finally are venturing out of the house and Eli went to the boy scouts with Sam and John. Well, because of his throwing up so much last week he has been gagging at the least little thing lately. And he gagged, and he lost his cookies!!

We go back to the clinic on Thursday to start his steroid pulse and get chemo. We have been downtown way too much this week!!

Thanks for checking in.

Maria

Although this sounds as though we had a rough couple of weeks (and we have) we are very blessed and thankful that throughout all of this we have been able to stay home...no hospital stays...Eli seems to be battling these illnesses with some strenghth, although he is working with a compromised immune system...Thank God!!