I weighed Brody last night and he weighed in at 38.6 pounds... this is somewhat of a milestone since that was his weight the day he got hospitalized last year. He still has some growing to do.... as he is a year older then last year.
The boys are going down to Trish's parents for the weekend... i'm sure they will have loads of fun.
Brody has had a good week. He has been feeling very good, lots of hair coming back in (his eyelashes and eyebrows are back), and he has had NO visible blood in his urine this week. We took a urine sample into hospital today and lab results all good on this one too.
They had to do a monthly blood draw today at the hospital while we were there. We didn't know that they were going to do a blood draw today either so we didn't put any EMLA cream on Brody's port access before we left to go to hospital (EMLA takes about an hour to numb the skin and has helped make all the "pokes" Brody has had to endure much more bearable). The nurse offered to draw blood from Brody's arm but Brody was scared to do that since he is so much more used to just using the port access. Unfortunately accessing the port requires much thicker needle than through arm. Brody decided he would rather do that though because it's what he's used to even though we explained it would hurt less in the arm. He wasn't convinced though. So Brody endured accessing his port without his numbing cream. And of course today when he didn't have his cream, the nurse was having a very hard time getting a good blood return after accessing the port. Took a long time and was quite uncomfortable for Brody. But he's a tough kid and didn't even cry one tear. (His brothers would have been screaming if they ever had to go through what Brody did today with his port).
Brody and Jaden are both really looking forward to their birthday party this weekend. I can't believe Brody, my baby, is already 5years old and my little Jaden will be six in just a couple weeks. Time goes by so fast!
