Happy New Year - Goodbye 2006

Happy New Year everyone. Hope all celebrated safely and are excited about the new year. We are very glad to have 2006 behind us and very hopeful 2007 will be a much better, healthier year all around.

We had a trip to clinic today, which was pretty uneventful (which is how I like them. I'd rather feel like a social call than an appointment). Simon had his picc line removed today. It was sorda coming out and looked icky and not really drawing any blood for us so instead of leaving it in they yanked it today. He still has his venus port for iv meds and blood draws. They told us today they think he can just come once a week. Wow. Seems too soon but okay, cut the cord and lets see how it goes. His counts are about the same. No big increase in anything and we will do vntrs next week to make sure Marrs cells are still 99% and going strong. Simons skull fracture is about the same. We hope it is healing inside but on the outside you can still see the bone. It appears some of the swelling has gone down but the prominence is still obvious. We have a follow up scheduled for Feb, so hopefully that will resolve itself. A CT scan will definately be encouraged again.

I guess the hardest part about all of this right now is that we really cannot be around alot of people and after such a long, hard year we would like to be able to attend parties and events as a family. That will be a long way off as Simons immune system needs at least a year to be functioning. That doesn't mean we can't see family but we cannot be around alot of people and NOONE who is sick. I can't take him on errands with me and so we hope and pray that things just continue to improve and this sacrafice will be over before we know it and we can all hang out places together.

Well, again thanks for the love and support, without it we would be lost. God Bless you all. Love David and Tracy