February 11th - Chemotherapy Treatment #20

It's break time! Two weekends at home! Peyton did really well with the last treatment. I will say this cycle was a rough one. He was a bit more nauseated this cycle than the previous cycles. It's manageable and he hasn't had to miss school so we aren't complaining! He hangs in there. He was really tired last week so it will be nice to get a break.
We stayed an extra day in Denver and enjoyed dinner and bowling with family and friends. Peyton LOVES bowling so he was super excited. I love him so much! He lights up my world!!!!
Landon wasn't feeling the greatest over the weekend, but he was a little trooper as well. We have all adjusted to our "new normal life" but sometimes it's especially hard when you don't feel good! He's better now and back to his sweet little self! They both make me so proud!
I'll update in March after the next treatment.........

February 4th - Chemotherapy Treatment #19

We had a very long day at the hospital on Friday: 7 hours to be exact. Peyton woke up sick on Friday morning. We had spent the night (Thursday) in Colorado Springs due to the roads being really bad on the drive up. So thankfully we didn't have far to go with him being so sick. He kept telling us he felt like he was going to throw up. We made it to the 9:15 eye appointment and things went well. We had given him Zofran (anti-nausea medicine) so that helped a bit I think. His eye doctor did prescribe reading glasses for Peyton. We were excited about this because he'll finally be able to see better up close while reading and working on his preschool work! Unfortunately, the doctor also told us Peyton has a cataract on one eye. However, he didn't seem too worried about it at this point. He said we'll continue to watch it every 2-3 months and hopefully Peyton won't have problems with this until he's much older. ? I still don't know what to think. Guess we'll just monitor it and hope, like the doctor, it doesn't create more problems for him anytime soon. It still saddens me to be honest!! Darn it!!
After the eye appointment we headed up for chemotherapy. He really started feeling sick again and by the time they were connecting his IV he'd had enough. He threw up all over himself, the nurse and the floor. The upside was he felt much better and slept solidly for 4 hours. That really seemed to help him more than anything. He awoke feeling much better. Poor little guy!!
One more week to go and then break time!!! Yay!

January 28th - Chemotherapy Treatment #18

Wow! What a whirlwind trip we made this week. We left around 6 am Friday for Peyton's treatment in Denver. Right after treatment we decided to head back home. Charlie had several deadlines he had to meet at work and needed the weekend to get things done. He worked all weekend. We didn't get home until 11:00pm Friday night, but it was sure nice to have a weekend at home! Saturday was absolutely beautiful!! The boys and I enjoyed some special time at the park. Good thing because we've sure hit a cold spell..... It was -25 degrees last night at our house! Brrrrrrrrr............
All is well. We are halfway through this round of treatments. Friday Peyton will see the eye doctor and then go on to chemo. Long day but we'll make it!
We are so blessed to have some new friends in our lives (kinda even family.....) They have been watching Landon on Fridays so we don't have to take him to the hospital. He gets the "royal treatment" because they really spoil him! He loves it! We are able to be with Peyton and focus on him. What an amazing gift they have given us. Thanks you guys.........