Some Bug is Going Around...

Thank God Elizabeth doesn't have it!! Please pray that she doesn't get it, either, because she is due for her second round of chemo next week.

Mom, Matt, and Danny are all coughing and spitting nasty globs. Matt and Mom are running low grade fevers (101), too. We made a trip to the doctor's office (Dr. Elizabeth Eddy-Bertrand in Northridge--she's a GREAT primary care physician) and got a couple of prescriptions for antibiotics. Thankfully Elizabeth is on bactrim (another antibiotic) Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (just so that she doesn't catch anything) while she's on chemo anyway. To keep her well, I think I will start giving it to her daily for the time being. We can't miss any chemo treatments!

No real new news regarding Elizabeth. We got a call from our nurse case worker at Children's on Friday with her blood test results. All of her counts were normal. It amazes us how little the chemo treatments (i.e. POISON) effects this little girl! No more blood in the stools (darn!), but we just keep believing the best will happen. Elizabeth talks about her body fighting the cancer and how the chemo helps her do that. We even have a story that she made up with Mom about Princess Elizabeth Rose ("Anne" is her middle name--she just likes the name "Rose") and a nasty dragon named "Cancer" that steals her favorite pink ballet slippers. We'll have to get that down on paper and post it. Elizabeth has quite the imagination!

Mike has Boy Scouts (I can't believe he's not a Cub Scout anymore!) tonight. He has been working on learning all his lines for the school play "The Wizard of Oz". He tried out for the Scarecrow (more face time, we think is why he picked that one), but was cast as the Lion. It suits him well. Mom sneaked a peek during Saturday rehearsal, and he is quite convincing. He has the accent down as well. He's wrapping up the school year nicely, and will be heading for MIDDLE SCHOOL next year. Yikes! He also had to watch "the movie" last week... the one that explains puberty. It was called "Boy to Man". Very cheesy. He asked Mom to go to the parents' showing because Dad embarasses him about that stuff. An hour of Mom's life she will never get back!

Matt is doing great in spite of being sick. Nothing ever seems to phase him... cuts, scrapes, blood, bonks, illness, nothing! He wants to play soccer (we don't know why he got that into his head), but they don't start until age 5, which leaves him another two seasons. So we're looking for something to keep this kid busy in the meantime. He just really wants an "activity".

Danny is growing like crazy! He'll be 3 months old on the 11th and already weighs in at 15 lbs. 11 oz. I wish we could keep him small for just a little longer!!

Thanks to all of you who signed Elizabeth's Guestmap... she loves seeing all the new people! And also thank you for signing her Guest Book on the Caring Bridge web page. We are working to get that page a little more informational for anyone who doesn't know Elizabeth's backstory so they won't have to scrounge through old blogs. With four kids it should be easy to fit that in somewhere!?

Keep praying for Elizabeth. Thanks!