Time to celebrate!

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Thus endeth my lame efforts at ASCII confetti.

Stop laughing!

Today, er, yesterday was Chase's last full day of Chemo, so there was much rejoicing. And picture taking. And more picture taking. And more with this camera, and some with that one... Now if blogger would actually let me post pictures tonight, I'd do so, but that will have to wait until until it's fixed. Meanwhile I'll be working on the red-eye reduction. Really, do they keep y'all totally in the dark there? Wow...

Judith, Mom, and I talked quite a bit with Chase's radiation oncologist tonight (mouths "sorry" to his 6 year old daughter waiting impatiently at home). He feels confident that Chase will do best with the Proton radiation down at MD Anderson, and is following up with the insurance company, still proceeding sslloowwllyy through the approval process.

Chase needs a final 2 hour MRI before the docs can decide just how much radiation treatment he'll need. If they see "complete response" (no sign of the tumor), he'll need just 3 1/2 weeks of daily treatment in Houston. If there's still something hanging around, it'll be more. With his 75% reduction after the first half of chemo, we hope/think/pray he'll have that complete response.

Then we break out the real confetti!