li ar Austin Akin's Cancer Battle: An end to another chapter.....








Friday, July 21, 2006

An end to another chapter.....



Hey,

Well radiation is finally over!!!! We successfully completed this chapter of our life. We now move on.

Austin has had a busy day. He got a new big boy bed and slept in it for the first time last night (I slept on a mattress right next to him). He got up at 6:30am all by himself. We got to CTRC early so we let him run around. The picture of him on the bench is at CTRC.

He got lots of toys for his last day over at CTRC. They gave him blocks and balls. He loved that. We then went to Dr. Patel's office where they were all hot because their AC was out. Austin's counts were down so he gave him some meds through his port to help them recover. We go back Monday to Dr. Patel's again for counts. When his counts come up then we will start his maintenance meds.

We had friends over this evening with their two girls. Austin loved to play with them. As you can see in the picture of Austin and I, Austin has a BIG boo boo on his forehead and eye. He decided to get in one of his toy boxes and fell over and smashed his face into the toy box lid. He later did a head stand in his room but I can't see any damage from that. Boy he is all over the place.

Austin is not in isolation yet but we are still on watch so he can not be around anyone who has been sick or anybody that has been around anyone who has been sick. We don't want to chance anything. We come to far.

Thanks for everyone's support along this journey of Austin's life.

Elizabeth