Brody Continuing to Feel Good Most the Time

Sorry we haven't updated in awhile.   Brody is still continuing to feel good most the time.   We have had a lot of very hot weather around here recently.   This has limited our funtime activities somewhat.   We do not let Brody stay out in the heat for very long because if he starts sweating very much,  the dressings for his nephrostomy tubes start to come loose.   Brody hates the dressing changes for these so we try to avoid activities then that could result in this needing to happen more frequently.   Brody has enjoyed hanging around the house the last couple weeks and playing with his brothers,  Mommy,  Daddy, neighborhood buddies,  and our 3 dogs.  

We were expecting to get another CT scan this next week but we were just told on Thursday we have to wait another couple weeks before they will do another scan.   I was looking forward to the scan.   I wanted to know if the tumor is continuing to shrink,  stay about the same,  or if it's gotten any bigger.   The part of the tumor I can feel when I palpitate his belly seems to feel about the same size as it has been the past couple weeks.   Pretty hard to tell much about the size of it this way though.   But at least I can feel the top edge just below his belly button still and this is where I have been feeling the top edge the last couple weeks.   I don't have as good of markers as a belly button for how far to the left and right I can feel it.   I've been thinking about marking his skin with a sharpie where i can feel the outer edge on each side so we can better judge somewhat how things are going sizewise.   But really,  much of his tumor cannot really be palpitated very well. 

Brody will head to the hospital tomorrow for more labs.   We are not expecting him to need blood tomorrow so should be a short day there tomorrow.    Then next week (the week with July 4th smack dab in the middle)  Brody will be admitted for the entire week for chemo.   Then the week after that he will get his CT scan.   We plan to celebrate the 4th of July together next weekend.   Not sure what all we will do but I'm sure it will involve fireworks,  cookouts,  friends,  family and fun!