Even on the cusp of summer, Memphis is unforgivingly hot, but the weather is nearly irrelevant when you’re back for check-ups at St. Jude, which we were at the end of June.
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Colin returned home, nearly a year from the completion of radiation and two months short of his fourth birthday, with a good scan and no trach. 0 Colin is in remission, and it now seems easier to utter the words aloud. His scan from January was still “stable,” with Dr. Gajjar now asserting that the sliver of “whatever” that cradles Colin’s brain stem is scar tissue. 0 Life is normal, or at least a simulacrum of normalcy that is close enough to count. 0 As Colin’s trajectory moves unevenly but steadily upward, we have also been taking him out into the world to finally do what he could not a year ago. 0 It is all too easy to feed off of birthdays, anniversaries, and other meaningful demarcations of time. 0 Colin’s second week of radiation was grueling: vomiting, utter fatigue, dangerous aspiration and an unexpected stay in the hospital. 0 Colin is always full of surprises and has continued to not disappoint us. 0 Colin Mugging for the Camera at Le Bonheur (Post-Ops) Our little fledgling has returned to Target House for good, following his last inpatient stay at St. Jude (barring unexpected events, of course). 0 Life doesn’t offer real do-overs, but there are times when an experience follows the parallel track of something that has come before. 0 |
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