A good day

Posted by: Mommy

CJ’s monthly chemo was on Tuesday. His ANC was 1700, just about perfect. The rest of his numbers were pretty good also. After last month’s melt down at clinic I have been talking to CJ a lot about chemo and why we have to do it. I have been doing my best to get through to him that sometimes we have to do things even if we don’t want to, and that is no reason to throw a fit. I also explained to him how much easier it is when he is good at chemo and holds still. After a month of talking we got to go see if it paid off. CJ was in a good mood on chemo day, he had no problems with his blood test, or the doctor giving him his check up, but this is pretty normal. Then the nurse came in to give him chemo, and brought help just in case. CJ was the perfect angel. He even talked and joked with them the whole time. One of the nurses was asking him about the zoo, and if he knew they had some dinosaurs at the zoo now. CJ looked at her funny and as serious as he could and told her she had to be wrong because dinosaurs are extinct. After chemo was finished the nurse went and got him free zoo passes for being so good, so he could see the dinosaurs. I am very proud of CJ, and hope this will be the new norm. After it was finished he told me it just hurts a little, but he is tough. I tried to tell him if he used the magic cream they gave him it wouldn’t hurt at all. He said he was tough and he didn’t need it. He has never like the magic cream, so we let him go without as long as he wants to.

Next week CJ starts kindergarten. He is very excited about it, and asks me everyday how many more days until he gets to go to school everyday. CJ has always loved school, and loves to learn. We drive down the road and play games where I give him a letter and he tells me words that start with that letter, (usually animals). He also wants to know how words are spelled, so far I am able to tell him, I just hope he doesn’t get to the hard words soon, since I am terrible speller.