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| driving home |
Greetings! We made it home from Houston last night. Thankfully we had a safe trip, thanks to all of you who prayed for our safe drive! (There was a severe thunderstorm warning with possibilities of tornado's) I tried posting an update while we were in Houston, but time just flew by. We had such a great trip, but first lets go over Blake's MRI results.
His MRI shows his tumor stable still, however we are watching that lesion a little closer because there was a slight change. Our doctors in Texas want us to come back in 3 months to do another scan on their machine so we can compare 'apples to apples'. We learned that different MRI machines have different strength magnets. Kinda like a 5 mega pixel camera compared to a 14 mega pixel camera. Its the same picture-but the 14 mega pixel is going to be a lot less grainy and more clear. The same thing with MRI's. I thought they always did the same scan-guess not. Lol So now I will make sure every scan is with the stronger magnet. It seems like common sense to me!
So July we will return to Houston for another MRI. We also have his opthamology, audiology, neuro-psychology and check up from Dr. Mahajan at the Proton Center. We were also told to see an endocrinologist. Blake's thyroid level was a little elevated. Nothing to worry about yet-just wanting us to keep an eye on it.
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| Blake and his Easter basket. |
While we were in Texas we celebrated Easter with my Houston family. Blake woke up to a house full of eggs. The Easter Bunny found us all the way down in Texas-and left a Easter basket for Blake! He was very excited and had a lot of fun hunting all the eggs. He even found a basket for Nevaeh! (She wasn't able to come with us-we are STILL waiting for the court to grant us as Kinship providers) After hunting eggs-we all got dressed and when to a little park to take some pictures. Then we went to Papa's Seafood restaurant to meet all my family for dinner. Phil LOVES seafood so he was one happy guy! I enjoyed my chicken salad-it was delicious! lol
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| Sleeping after his MRI |
On Wed we had Blake's MRI. It went smoothly, except for the whole poke for his IV. He threw a huge fit before he was even poked. He knows the topical numbing spray means he is about to be poked so he freaked out. I ended up holding him, and after a little fighting-his IV was in. On Thurs we met with Dr. Pearlman and Dr. Vats. After going over the results we drove to the Houston Zoo-for the first time! When we arrived the parking lot was completely full-NO place to park. So we decided to go eat and try again. That was a good idea because Blake took a nap for about an hour-we were driving around trying to find a good place to eat. We ended up agreeing on Quiznos. We returned to the Zoo and we found a great parking spot. The Zoo was great! The goats in the petting zoo were Blake's favorite, and the elephants! They had 2 baby elephants that were wrestling-omg it was so cute! On Friday we went to Galveston with my Aunt. Blake walked on the beach and collected a few small shells. He also found a pink Easter egg-we threw the candy inside away. lol Then my aunt took us to Moody Gardens. We went to the rain-forest pyramid. It was SO cool. The birds and monkeys are free to roam the garden. It was a lot of fun. Blake had a blast!
Here is a little slide show I put together-Enjoy!!
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