We are home!  Jack had a great night last night and a great day today.  He never got sick during this round and was full of energy.  We were able to play again in the playroom, played tons in our room, and had a visit from our friend Shawn who was our roommate last time we were in the hospital.  He was in for scans and he stopped by with him mom to say hi to Jack.  He brought Jack a toy plane and a plane sucker that was a fan on the end…Jack was so happy!  Zac came over after work and we hung out until we were able to leave at 8 PM tonight.  Jack took at 20 minute nap on the way home and then he was full of energy once we got here.  My sister, Stacey, has been watching Braden for us with her daughter Abbey.  Jack noticed right away that Abbey had his toys in different areas than he was used to and kept asking, “Excuse me, why is this ball here?  Excuse me, why is this pillow here”  Excuse me….”  It is pretty funny that he notices these sort of things.

We will be back in clinic on Thursday of next week and then the week after will be filled with Dr’s apts and scans…so keep Jack in your thoughts and prayers!!

Jack has less than 22 hours left of chemo and then we get to go home!  He did really well last night and had a good day today.  We played in the playroom again today, visited with some friends, and played lots of Mario while the day passed on.  He has been in a great mood, but is really happy that we get to go home tomorrow.  He has been eating good, not great, but good and we are sure that he will eat even better once we get home tomorrow night. 

We were told today that Jack will be in the week of the 9th for all of his scans and test to prepare him for his stem cell transplant.  As long as the scans come back the way that they want them to, then we will be checking in the week of the 23rd for our month long stay.  We are very nervous for that, but we also know that it will just be one step closer to kicking the crap out of this cancer.  It is amazing that Jack will be done with chemo after next month!  We still have more treatment after, but at least we will be done with chemo, surgery, and transplant!  Wooooo Hoooo!

McKenna checked in for her month longs stay for her stem cell transplant today so lets say lots of prayers for her and her family that this all goes very smooth for her.

Thank you to everyone…old friends and new…that have given Jack and our family so much support during this time.  We appreciate it so much!  We love reading all the posts that people write us so please keep them coming!

Jack had a good night last night and a great day today.  We were able to play in the playroom, walk the halls, had a music man play for Jack in our room, play the Wii, and now watching Nemo.  He has been able to eat really well (as well as he can eat when it’s hospital food!) and he actually gained weight from yesterday!  I am sure the fluids that he is being pumped full of has something to do with it, but we love to see that number go up!  He started his second 24 hour session of this round at 6 PM tonight and all has gone well so far.  He never got sick last night or today so hopefully he doesn’t get sick tonight either. 

Jack says some of the funniest things and I always say I am going to write them down, but then I forget but I thought I would share a couple of things he said today and yesterday:

The nurse gave him a juice that he asked for and he says to her, “Right on Buddy!”

He asked if he could go to the playroom today and of course I said yes, once I got him all set to go he says, “Mom, a mans gotta do what a mans gotta do.”  He was so serious!  I started laughing at him and he replies with, “It’s nothing to sneeze at, Mom”

Are you kidding?  I swear, I think he is an old man in a 3 year old body.

Well we are back in action!  After Jack had a fun weekend of running around like a mad man playing with his cousin Abbey, he officially started round 6 of chemo around 6 PM tonight.  He will have a continues flow of 3 different types of chemo until Friday and then we will be able to go home Friday night.  Even though the AC is out (yes, it is a tad warm!)  he was able to play in the play room and we made our rounds running around in circles in the halls. As we hope to keep his side effects to a minimum, we plan to stay active during this round while we are here because it seemed to work last time he had this “mix” so we will see how tomorrow goes! 

As we are pretty much obsessed with his weight…he officially weighed in at 28.3 lb!  That is more than he has weighed since we started all of this!  Hopefully he can get up to 29 or more by the time stem cell starts.  He is just eating so great now that I wake up in the middle of the night thinking how proud I am of him!

We will update more tomorrow!

Jack has had a great couple of weeks off since his surgery. He has been feeling great and full of energy.  We were able to go to the aquarium last weekend and out to lunch as a family and it was great!  We haven’t been able to do that since Braden was born so it was nice to feel “normal” for a little bit.  We had a couple of appointments yesterday with Jack’s surgeon and his oncologist to see if they would clear him for his next round of chemo and they did. They took the strips off his stitches and he has healed up so well.  His counts were high and normal so he will be starting round 6 of chemo on Tuesday.  This round is the same as his 4th round so kind of know what to expect.  It is 72 hours straight of chemo, but he did really well with it last time.  I don’t think he ever got sick with it during the chemo, but he did end up with a fever after we were home because it really knocks his levels down to nothing.  Hopefully we can prevent that from happening again.  He has been eating like a champ and has gained some good weight so maybe that will help!

We will update again once we  check in!

Thank you so much for all the well wishes and prayers that have been sent his way…we appreciate it more than you all know!!