Overdue Update

Hi all, my apologies for the overdue update….

After a 5 day stay at City of Hope for William’s 18th round of chemotherapy, William was released early yesterday – Just in time to spend some time with Grandpa and watch the fireworks from Long Beach.

William is doing well. His weight is finally picking back up, and holding steady at 57 pounds (10 pounds more than what he was 6 months ago) The weight gain is crucial for his bone marrow transplant as he will have very little appetite after the BMT and will therefore most likely be receiving nutrition via IV.

This week will hopefully be a calm and boring one… I sincerely hope that we can avoid any infections, fevers and complications. If we are fortunate enough to avoid any complications and further hospital admits,  then next week William and I will be returning home to Randell for 5 days. Upon our return from Nor. Cal.  William will be off to a much anticipated Camp Ronald McDonald http://www.campronaldmcdonald.org/ for seven days of fun, laughter, friends, activities and mischievous behavior.

I will try to update again later this week.

This is William's journey and we will Keep on Keepin on' and Live Strong with God in our hearts and courage in our soul!