8/11: Leo's First Restful Day in Over a Month!

Yes, it's true. Leo has been in a hospital, clinic, doctor's office, or airplane every single day for the past month or so. Not today. We did have home nurse Candice from OptionCare come in the morning (early!) to draw blood from the port, which worked without TPA, but that was fast and painless. So Leo was in a much better mood because he finally got a chance to rest a little bit at home. We drank, watched television, drank, ate, slept (yes!), drank, and just had a nice day. Granpa Leonid came over and went for a nice walk with Leo -- the weather in Chicago has been perfect since we returned.

I made copies of the lab orders and per Leiann's excellent suggestion put STAT at the top, as well as all the fax numbers, etc. The results, all good, were faxed to everyone exactly 2 hours after the draws, so our local lab and home health nurse seem to have their acts together!

Leo's moving up to 185mL of antineoplaston A10 and staying at 12.5mL of AS2-1. That means he'll be at the maximum dosage on both bags within a week or two. Also, two other children, Justin and Gus, had fantastic news this week of the antineoplaston treatment seeming to work!

I finally had a few minutes to add the image from the original MRI on June 19, 2006, showing Leo's tumor.