HELLO EVERYONE - IT'S BEEN A WHILE SINCE I UPDATED. WELL JOSH IS STILL BATTLING GETTING HIS PLATELETS SQUARED AWAY. THEY PUT HIM ON STEROIDS AND HAVE BEEN GIVING HIM DOSES OF RITUXIMAB.HE HAS ONE MORE DOSE TO GO. THEY TOOK HIM OFF OF THE STEROIDS ABOUT A WEEK AFTER THEY STARTED HIM ON THEM. NEXT MONDAY WAS SUPPOSE TO BE HIS THIRD DOSE OF RITUXIMAB, BUT JOSH IS GOING ON A TRIP WITH HIS CRIMINAL JUSTICE CLASS ON SUNDAY (FATHER'S DAY) AND WON'T BE BACK UNTIL THE FOLLOWING FRIDAY. SO THE FOLLOWING MONDAY HE WILL GET HIS LAST DOSE. HIS PLATELETS WERE HOLDING STEADY, BUT TODAY WHEN HE HAD LABS THEY WERE ONLY 34,000. SO BARB AND THE DOCTOR'S DECIDED SINCE HE WON'T GET HIS LAST DOSE AT HIS SCHEDULED TIME HE WILL START BACK ON STEROIDS TODAY THROUGH THE TIME HE IS AT CAMP. I WISH THEY WOULD JUST GET THIS SQUARED AWAY. JOSH WON'T HAVE TO DO ANY TRAINING AT THIS FIELD TRIP, HE WILL MAN THE VIDEO CAMERA AND DO ERRANDS WITH HIS INSTRUCTOR (LIKE MAKE WALMART AND MCDONALDS RUNS. WHAT A TEACHER'S PET). HE ALSO DOES NOT HAVE TO RIDE THE BUS, HE WILL RIDE IN THE POLICE CAR WITH HIS INSTRUCTOR.
THE KIDS BOTH DID GOOD IN SCHOOL. JOSH IS A SENIOR NOW (AT LEAST I HOPE, HE HAS NOT GOT HIS REPORT CARD). LEXI IS NOW ENTERING HER LAST YEAR IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. LEXI HAS HAD NOTHING BUT SLEEPOVERS. AT FIRST LEXI STARTED OUT BY GOING TO VIRGINIA BEACH ON THE LAST FOUR DAYS OF SCHOOL WITH HER CLOSE FRIEND, GRACIE. SHE HAD A BLAST AND THEY STAYED IN A GORGEOUS BEACH HOUSE. JOSH HAS BEEN WORKING WITH HIS DAD WHEN HE CAN.
THAT'S ALL THE NEW NEWS. ACCEPT THAT AS OF JUNE 3RD MY SISTER-IN-LAW AND HER SIGNIFICANT OTHER HAD A BABY BOY. WE OFFICIALLY HAVE TWO BOYS IN OUR IMMEDIATE MEDLIN FAMILY. JOSH WAS THE ONLY BOY OF NIECES AND NEPHEWS, NOW WE HAVE ANOTHER. CONGRATS TO BOTH OF THEM.
WE NEED TO SAY OUR PRAYERS FOR A LITTLE GIRL NAMED RHEMA BUTLER IN SEATTLE, WASHINGTON WHO HAS THE SAME DISEASE AS JOSH. TODAY SHE IS HAVING HER DEBULKING SURGERY (TUMOR REMOVAL). MY PRAYERS GO OUT TO HER & HER FAMILY. I KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE SITTING IN THE WAITING ROOM FOR AT LEAST 10 HOURS WAITING. GOD IS WITH HER AND WILL MAKE SURE EVERYTHING WILL GO ALRIGHT. SHE HAS HAD A TOUGH TIME WITH EVERYTHING SHE HAS BEEN GOING THROUGH, JUST BEING HOME SICK AND SCARED AND WANTING HER NORMAL LIFE BACK.
ON THAT NOTE I AM GOING TO SIGN OUT AND AS ALWAYS LET'S SAY OUR PRAYERS FOR EVERYBODY FIGHTING THIS NASTY DISEASE OF CANCER AND FOR JOSH TO GET HIS PLATELETS SQUARED AWAY, AND OF COURSE FOR RHEMA.
TAKE CARE AND GOD BLESS
GAIL
