Day +88: A Good Weekend

Keith enjoyed a nice weekend. He’s been feeling really good lately and better still, he was able to have several of his friends over to the house to play. We even acquiesced to his request for a sleepover with a friend Saturday night. It was a lot of fun for him, made even better by having Scott hang with them.

There’s only one more week left of school for all of Keith’s Wagner Ranch friends. We’re sorry he won’t be able to experience ‘graduation’ from elementary school but with summer vacation just around the corner perhaps Keith can offset any disappointment with more play dates.

While Keith won’t be able to swim for Park Pool this summer, Scott is wearing the Kelley ‘speedo’ torch so to speak. He has been getting himself in shape over the last several weeks by attending evening pre-season practices and today was the time trials meet at the pool, where each swimmer swims every event to establish a baseline time for the upcoming season. His times were quite good and he seems to be enjoying himself to boot. Only one more week of intermediate school for him then it’s off to high school in the fall….o…m…g…

Good news – Keith won’t need to undergo the bone biopsy that was scheduled for Monday, sparing himself yet another uncomfortable procedure and a sore spot as a reminder. Instead we just need to have blood labs drawn in preparation for what we believe will be the commencement of the first course of the clinical trial in a week or so. Keith is in a wonderful frame of mind and does a great job pushing all of the medical stuff aside so that he can enjoy the moment. That’s been his modus operandi from the get go and I see no reason for him to alter this approach.

We received a fat envelope in the mail on Saturday addressed to Keith from the Ronald McDonald House. We though "how nice, they've sent him a t-shirt." Instead, it was full of cards and letters that were never delivered to Keith while he was there. What's with that? So apologies to all who sent him notes of encouragement - he has them now at last...

Finally, late last week Keith's neighbor & friend Chad knocked on our door and presented Keith with yet another art project that the 5^th graders created for him. It was a fired clay fish decorated with the patterns borrowed from of one of Keith’s abstract art projects he did at the hospital a while back that I posted on the April 17^th entry. We are so grateful to Mrs. Kam, Wagner Ranch’s art teacher, for the many times she has cheered Keith up with art projects that she and her class have done for him.