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The Best Laid Plans…

With surgery set for Wednesday, Monday was a big prep day for Colin, but he demonstrated yet again that our careful planning can be rendered irrelevant by the result of a single blood culture.

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The Sky is Falling!

Oh, wait. That’s just snow.

Target House Elephants: Normally, this is a fountain, and through the holidays the pachyderms were adorned with white lights.

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Time for the ANC Dance

Well, today was Colin’s No Mo’ Chemo party, but for some reason, the chemo didn’t put on its listening ears.

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No Mo' Chemo!

The last chemo precaution sign. This indicates the time of the administration and how long we need to properly dispose of diapers and so forth (48 hours after the drug has finished being administered).

Well, it’s official: Colin’s I.V. chemo is done. He received a dose of vincristine Thursday afternoon at 3:22 pm.

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Pushing Through

Colin is back on track with chemo, eliciting a big sigh of relief for us.

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Trick or Treat

The children of St. Jude are now asleep, comatose in the aftermath of an orgy of candy consumption.

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Breakdown Lane

St. Jude is a superhighway of cancer care for children.

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Colin's MRI Results... and so Much More

Colin enjoyed three nights on the prowl (i.e. outpatient) before a planned admission on Friday for chemo to start on Saturday.

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GTA: Memphis

The big news is that Colin is set to discharge on Tuesday morning.

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TPN at 10 P.M.

Friday was an eventful day for the whole family.

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