Family Book...Forum Style

[CGVT]

It's nice to see all the kids look like their mom.

[DanO]

""I can put you through college or I can put you through that fucking wall. You choose."
-------------------------------------NICE!

"I'm standing in a hole, dammit!"
--------------------------I give it three years and you'll be the shortest one in the family.

"It's nice to see all the kids look like their mom."
-------------------------------------Poor Mary. She could have done so much better. :-)

[Malto Marko]

""I can put you through college or I can put you through that fucking wall. You choose."
-------------------------------------NICE!

"I'm standing in a hole, dammit!"
--------------------------I give it three years and you'll be the shortest one in the family.

"It's nice to see all the kids look like their mom."
-------------------------------------Poor Mary. She could have done so much better. :-)

[Islair]

Good looking group CG.

[Craven]

Coop - I'm sorry to hear about your son. My 7 year old daughter just completed 2.5 years of treatment for ALL Leukemia this Feb. I know how much it sucks. Good luck, and stay strong.

[DanO]

Sorry to hear that Craven. How's your daughter doing?

[Craven]

She's doing great. We knew the meds were beating her down, but she's like a diiferent kid without chemo. We were pretty lucky. She only had to go inpatient four times. Twice for fevers and twice because she had liver problems from the chemo.

[DanO]

AWESOME!!!! my friend

[Sharkbait]

Always nice to hear the feel-good stories, craven.

[kayrone]

Oh Craven, God bless you and your family. So happy to hear a positive outcome!

[-Deborah-]

Craven, wonderful news!!

[Coop]

Craven - I am sorry to hear you have born this burden as well. We are dealing with ALL as well, and have been fortunate outside of a few hospital stays with fevers and an allergic reaction (which was a oh **** 20 moments) during scheduled chemo to have been mostly home with him with minimal side effects.

Since I'm talking about it - we are month four of six, he had a bone marrow check just over a week ago and the initial check looks clean, but we haven't been communicated the more detail level test results yet (although I am hinted at by one of our nurses that isn't a bad thing).

We are back for another scheduled hospital stay this weekend - no other major news to report.

[LionsFanInJapan]

Glad to hear everything turned out well, Craven.

And sounds like good news, Coop! Hope the weekend goes well.

[Craven]

Thanks everyone.

Coop - I'm sorry you have to go through this. I can't imagine how hard it is to have a child with Autism and then put them on steroids. My daughter flipped out on them and they were part of the protocol for the whole 2 1/2 years.

Does he go on maintenance after 6 months? I thought boys had to go 3 years?

Good luck with everything. If you ever want to ask me anything just send me a message.

[Coop]

Craven - we are fortunate that for the most part, he's lost the Autistic label other than a few quirks (rocking, flapping). He's a happy kid that refuses to be negative and that in its own is a huge help in dealing with it. I swear at points I have an adult living inside a child. If it were my daughter dealing with this...I think we would be having a worse time with it in general.

Maintenance is supposed to happen I believe after six months - we just continue to take it day by week.