January 21st - Chemotherapy Treatment #17

Yesterday was a long day for all of us. We had to be at the hospital at 6:00am for Peyton's MRI and then chemo followed that. Things with the MRI went great. We had the results before we left the hospital. There hasn't been any significant changes since the first MRI in March 2010. The oncologist did say that even though we haven't seen changes in the size of the tumor we can be happy that it isn't growing and causing further damage to his vision. She told us that the tumor might not shrink at all, even with 9 more months of treatment, but hopefully it will continue to remain stable and will not grow anymore. Even after treatment is over we'll have to continue with regular MRIs to make sure it doesn't change. This will be a lifelong thing for Peyton and we'll always have to monitor it. Nonetheless, we are happy with the results of the MRI and we see this as good news!
Peyton's favorite nurse, Amy, wasn't there on Friday so he was very sad about that, but we made it! That can be very devastating as he is very much a child that likes rountines and consistency, but he was a big boy and made it through with another (wonderful) nurse. We'll be happy to see Amy next week when she isn't taking a class!! :)
We are staying in Denver until Sunday this week and having dinner with family and friends tonight. Very fun!! We braved Chuck E. Cheese today so the boys could have a little bit of fun and release some energy. It was really fun watching them run around all excited!
Now I'm hoping this cold, that has hit me like a truck, won't continue to get worse and I can be ready for Monday morning, and a trip back up to Denver on Friday. I have to remain strong (that's what I tell myself....I can't get sick!!) :) There's no time for me to be sick.... :)

December 30th - Treatment #16

This wraps up Peyton's treatments for 2 weeks! Yay! We are all very excited to spend a couple of weekends at home. All went well this week except the weather. We left Denver right after treatment and started for home. It took us 4 hours to get to Pueblo; that's twice as long as it usually takes. It was bumper to bumper traffic all the way and we never made it over about 20mph. There were lots of accidents slowing everyone down. We decided to stop in Pueblo and spend the night. Thankfully the boys slept the entire way so it wasn't that bad. However, they were pretty wound up by the time we stopped for the night, and we had a hard time settling them down for the night! :)
We head back to Denver on January 20th after work. Peyton has to be at the hospital at 6:00 am on January 21st for his next MRI. Hopefully we'll see the chemo is starting to work!!