Day 6

Wow! I don't even know what good stories to tell for today. We've had so many. Today has been such and improvement. We actually feel like we have our Grant back. He had his first chemo shot this morning. He took it like a champ! He never even said a thing about it and he did not have one side effect from it. Whoo hoo! We were ready for a bit of a difficult day, but it turned out to be the best one so far.

We went for several walks around the floor. He is still hooked to an IV, so someone has to push his pole around for him. We took his remote control Lightning McQueen car out into the halls today and played. We were chasing down the nurses. Rudy said it was payback for last week. ;) Grant laughed and laughed. He actually took off running down the hall chasing the car at one point and the pole pusher (me) wasn't ready. I took off after him trying to not let his IV pull. I didn't realize the pole was still plugged into the wall. The cord popped out and we made quite a scene. That's sounding more normal, right?

Trent was able to come up and play tonight. Grant had been asking about him. When they saw each other, they ran together and held hands. I think it was the sweetest thing I've ever seen! They played together in the playroom and got back to acting like normal brothers.

Grant has talked and laughed much more today. He has not been crying when they come to take his vitals. And he's actually been interacting with the nurses a little bit.

I could go on and on about all the little good things that we've seen happen today. Medically, we got another good report from the doctor. He is very pleased with his continued improvement. He mentioned the possibility of getting to go home at the end of the week. The tests on Wed. will be critical.