Well its official. Hunter now has a single lumen Hickman catheter protruding from his chest. He had surgery on Thursday to place the Hickman and had bone marrow samples taken and a spinal tap as well while he was under. He was very sore after the surgery and wanted to stay the night at the hospital so he could lie still and not move. When he moved he cried out in pain. I believe you can say that any time an little boy wants to stay in a hospital where there are needles and smelly things in every drawer rather than going home to a nice comfy bed he must have been in pain. I was able to get him into the car as he cried out in pain but there was no other way to do it. He threw up on the way home which must have been a reaction to the anesthesia. Poor little man. We got home and placed him on the couch where he stayed all night. The next day he felt a little better and today he is feeling much better, so much so that we were able to venture out to pet smart for some fish to fill the fish tank the neighbor loaned us.

Time passes and he seems to be doing well all things considering. He stills acts like a little boy and wants to play but the surgeries have really zapped the energy out of him. He is tired more and more refined in his interactions with his sister. We are waiting on the doc now to make the final determination on when the chemo will start. The lymphoma is a stage 2 since it was found in the abdomen. All the scans came back with no further cancer seen so that means we caught it the early stages which bodes well for treatment and hopefully a cure. All fingers crossed. His mother and I are taking it day by day and look forward to the post chemo party.