Field Trip!

Neal had his first visit home since January 25! We left Tuesday afternoon and came back yesterday. I worked at the office Wednesday and Neal stopped in to say hi to the staff. It was good to connect with Collin, this has been hard on him. We have tried to keep him at our house with different family and friends for stability but occasionally he sleeps at someone else’s house. My parents came up from Florida for a couple weeks, my sister has taken some weekends, Grant, Jenni and Lane came for a week to stay with Collin, Whitney and Ty took a weekend, Britton and Michelle had him last weekend, my friend Lois stayed at our house for a few days, Dale and Bobbie have had days in between and this week Collin is staying at one of his friend’s house. My parents are coming up again from Florida to stay 2 more weeks, then Cheri and Collin will fly to Florida for part of his spring break to visit my brother and his family. By then my parents will be back home and they will stay with them a couple more days and fly back to Chicago to spend a couple days with us at the apartment and finish up with a few more days at our house. We are praying that we can be back to Bridgman full time by April 15 (that’s how long I have the apartment for). Continue to pray for Collin as he deals with this on top of normal teenage stuff.

Neal had a doctor’s appointment yesterday. His numbers are continuing to climb: 250,000 platelettes, 4.8 white count and 10.4 hemoglobin. Yahoo!!! He continues to have the rash on his face which looks like a sun burn and a red throat but nothing to concerning. We don’t have the results back yet from his bone marrow biopsy.

On the journey,
Trish