"Adam's counts are good"

"Adam's counts are good." That was the text I got from Martha at 402pm today. That meant that Adam's last chemo session was on schedule. We worried that once again Adam's counts would be under and he'd have to wait, again, for his supposedly last chemo treatment. No more waiting. His mood was almost giddy Martha said. When treatment was over he ran out of the clinic and out of the hospital. Hooray!

We will celebrate in style at some point but tonight we are simply basking in the knowledge that the nausea, the fatigue, the saline push are know more. Yes Adam will have to make regular trips for ongoing imaging. As much as every 3 months. But compared to the inpt chemo, the radiation and the increasingly agonizing trips to the clinic that will be a piece of cake.

After the session was over Martha took Adam to get a new gameboy game. I took Camille to her soccer practice. One of Adam's friends, Jack, was also there with his younger brother so I called Martha to see if Adam could come and hang out. Normally, right after chemo, Adam would be lethargic and moody. Not today. He came right over and was running, playing, laughing.

This morning I dropped Adam off at school. As I watched him walk and join the other kids as they entered the school I breathed in all the pain, isolation, anger, sadness and frustration of the last 6 months, and I breathed out all the health, excitement, joy and 11 year old adventure that awaits Adam for the rest of the school year.......God willing.