It's that time again. Time to see what's going on with the cancer in Eli's body. Since I can feel Eli's thigh tumor, and a couple of the tumors we radiated in September, without scans I could tell that radiation did a good job of shrinking the foot and arm tumors. The thigh tumor, which …
It has taken me a week to find time to finish this series of posts, so I will post date it. Day #7 was travel day. On day #6, after we returned to the hotel in Fort Lauderdale, we discovered that our room keys had ceased to work. While waiting for engineering to solve the …
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And...the snorkeling excursion in the Keys was cancelled. The weather actually ended up being very nice, but I guess the wind was incompatible with the boat ride. However, they said we could still rent the gear and snorkel in the lagoon. So that's what we did. Eli was in a bad mood, so I don't …
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Sunday was our day to relax. Our plan was to do a dinner/ riverboat cruise in the evening, but the rest of the day was open to recharge from the past few days of activities. Eli decided extra time in the pool was what he needed. Ella and Eli as seen from our room's balcony …
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9:13 am- Today's itinerary is: 1-Pick up breakfast at Wendy's, 2-Pick up swim floaties and water at Walmart, 3-Drive to the Everglades for an airboat tour, 4-Figure out the rest later. Eli has been Mayreen's favorite nephew since he was 4 years old Not every day you pass an alligator on the road. The Everglades, …
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On the agenda for today was snorkeling near Fort Lauderdale, but it was too windy and it was cancelled. Mayreen and I did some searching for a plan B, and Mayreen (a.k.a. "Ant May May", yes I know it's usually spelled "Aunt", but Eli doesn't know that and Mayreen really loves to be called Ant) …
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Florida is wet. Very, very wet. It reminds me of Panama, sudden downpours mixed with sunshine. Kinda like my life the last couple years, actually. But I digress. We started the day checking out of the hotel, since the plan, after spending the day at Universal Studios, was to drive back south to our next …
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We spent the day flying across the country, complete with Eli's duct tape and paracord (who knows when you need to escape in a pinch). In fact, we were on the verge of whipping out the adventuring supplies when we had to evacuate the rental car facility. After the suspicious activity was dealt with, we …
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Me waiting while Adam is taken to imaging When I was writing the last post, I was sitting in the emergency department at our local hospital with Adam, trying not to use all my phone battery. It was Friday and the day had started off pretty typically. At 8am my alarm went off reminding me …
Eli is pretty amazing. His three weeks of daily radiation began on Monday. He's really had a great attitude about it. He had a few hard days in August, but once he arranged for regular VR play time while at Primary Children's for clinic visits, he's been much happier. Before one of his trips up …
Eli The Boss 