Almost Almost!

Last week (11/22) went really well. We're focused mostly right now on managing the full restoration of Samuel's extremity strength + keeping his body healthy enough so that we stay on target for treatment completion.

Despite a little moment of "concern" over the 12-14th weekend, Samuel was recovered + in good form to get his Actinomycin treatment as scheduled. On that Friday night (11/12), Samuel's body decided to show signs of fever...made even less cool since Dad + Mom had run away for the weekend, and the children were staying with their grandparents. Mawmaw did an amazing job monitoring him through the night, and PRAISE GOD bc Samuel's fever never crept over 100.0 -- friendly reminder that 100.5+ wins an immediate trip to the ER (and judging from his ANC on Monday, he may have been automatically admitted for 48-hour isolation watch). Mawmaw refused to allow any sickness or infection or even symptom take hold of Samuel, and her watchful, faithful guard paid off! Samuel arose Saturday morning feeling great and ready to take on the world!

Probably the best news was that considering a weekend fever scare, his counts were pretty great yet again by Monday (11/15), thanks to all the prayer + agreement. Now the excitement is mounting bc one more week of labs, followed by one more dose of Actinomycin and........ WE ARE DONE!!!!!!!! Getting ever MORE excited, as if that were possible :)