5/10 Update
First of all Happy Mother’s Day Victoria (and all the other mother’s as well of course!) 
We’re still in the hospital. Ryan is feeling well most of the time. He does still have nausea occasionally. We are hoping that we’ll be able to go home this afternoon, but more likely it will be tomorrow. We are anxiously awaiting the evaluation phase to start which will include CT Scans, PET scans, MRI’s and bone scans. I asked the doctor about next steps if signs of the tumors were still present. She said that there was a “plan B” but she didn’t even want to talk about it as she was confident that based on the type of cancer Ryan has as well as how well he has been responding that the tests would be negative. She even confirmed what a miraculous recovery Ryan had from when he was first diagnosed. Per her statement he was one of the sickest children and most critical cases they had ever seen on the front-end of treatments. Someone asked me yesterday why we didn’t go to St. Jude. We did consider it, but the reality is that Ryan’s case was too critical to consider a move. In retrospect, the care we have received and proximity to our home and support system have not caused us to regret our decision at all. We are so thankful to have Blair E. Batson Children’s Hospital in our backyard!
Yesterday I volunteered to man a shift at the Blair E. Batson Miracle Home and took Bryce and Deanna with me. We had a good time and I am so proud of the way they behaved! We had a played together in the back yard between visitors. Victoria was going to take the kids to church today but Deanna started spiking a fever last night. Bryce has gone to church with some friends, Victoria and Deanna are home, Ryan and I are at the hospital. I guess we’ll get our family bonding time later.
Have a great day and God Bless!
Did you enjoy this post? Why not leave a comment below and continue the conversation, or subscribe to my feed and get articles like this delivered automatically to your feed reader.
Comments
I’m sure you’re anxious to get those tests done! I will continue to pray. I’m glad he’s done with his chemo and can recover from that and just be a kid again. Poor Ryan (and family) have had a very long road. Thank you so much for continuing the updates! I look forward to reading he’s home.
Great post, Victoria. Considering where he was then, and where he is now, we rejoice and trust that he can bid all this a fond farewell and get back to the business of being a kid!!!!
Reply