YEAH BEARS!!!!!!!! (sorry Dr. Duerst) Dave needs tickets to sundays game, anyone????? haha. Hello everyone sorry I have not posted I have been trying to get some new photos loaded and am having issues. I wanted to show you all how handsome Simon is looking with his bald head but the photos won't post so (check back in a couple of days and I should have it worked out).....onto the medical aspect of things. Simon actually just walked in the office with the biggest smile on his face carrying Isabels glo bear and wand (the girls are at school so he has free run of their room even though it says "No boys allowed, girls only", ha ha). He is doing pretty well. His skin is a calming down a little bit. His g-tube site flarred up over the weekend and we had to put a call into Dr. Duerst. We have been trying to treat it topically b/c the drug we use for this issue suppresses his bone marrow and we are having a bit of an issue with the white cells coming back up so.....it seems to be holding its own and I am hoping that with the other areas of the skin calming down his white cells can focus on the g-tube and put us in good shape. We have all been battling a cold/cough/upper respiratory thing and no matter how hard we tried it seems Simon has caught a bit of a cough so we pray that does not go any further. Its so hard to try and stay apart and now especially with all of us having it. Not sure who we should have sent where but we chose to all stay home togehter and we might be paying the price. We'll see. Simon seems to soldier on no matter what. I feel guility sometimes because I know other NEMO families are taking such great precautions and I wonder if because we have been going through this transplant cycle for over a year now if we have difused ourselves to some of that and know we are going to have infections and issues to deal with no matter how hard we try to keep everything clean, sterile and safe. We do our best and I have to be okay with that I guess.

My sister and Daves brother are improving, thank God. We are all hoping to get healthy so we can have a big family hoopla. I have to send BIG kudos out to my nephew Kyle. He took first place overall at his gymnastic meet in Michigan and his team took first. They could not have done that without Kyle. Great job!!!!!

Enjoy the day and please keep the prayers coming they are working. Simon is so happy and we are just anxious for the days when we can be with other people and enjoy our families, friends and lives. God Bless everyone.