All is well today. Hunters belly button is healing just fine. I guess the augmentin really does the trick although he must still be in a little bit of pain or discomfort because he walks all hunched over like an old man. Jessica and I always smile and sometimes make light at his behalf as he walks by. He can not wait to get better so he can go fishing on Pops boat or hunting with Grandpa. To tell you the truth we can not wait for that day either.

Tomorrow he will have the first of three tests to determine the stage and aggressiveness of the malignancy. He will have a PET scan tomorrow then a CT on Thursday and to round out the week will be a bone scan. I am curious why they want to do a CT and bone scan when the PET scan is a combination of CT and nuc med but I reckon that is why I am not a doctor. It is a terrible feeling to know that the well being of your child is in the hands of someone that is constantly practicing what they do. We are hoping that we will get some news as to the stage after the PET scan. By then the pathology test results should be in and the results should be enough to make the determination. The waiting is agonizing. All the what if's fly through your head, all the anxiety that is associated with those what if's do not go away. I wake every morning hoping it was all just a dream.