My Great Family!

We went to the H/O Clinic at Cook’s on Friday and met with Dr. Bowman for Payton’s post surgery appointment. Dr. Bowman said that we can finally start doing Sonograms and Chest X-Ray’s instead of MRI’s and CT Scans. What a great accomplishment to finally be at this point. It has been a long 3 years. He said that he would like to continue doing this every 3 months for 1 more year and then every 6 months after. Dr. Bowman would like to run some blood work on Payton’s next appointment to see if we can find out how much iron he has in his liver. The pathology report from his surgery showed some scar tissue as well as iron which can be caused from the chemo and blood transfusions. Payton will be due for his Annual Echo/Ekg to check his heart on this next three month appointment as well, which will be in August. Dr. Bowman also talked to Chad and I about putting Payton on a follow up after cancer treatment care program. Our next appointment we will be meeting with a specialist to discuss how to put this together. This will allow us to be able to keep all of Payton’s chemo records with his dosages that he received together in a book. We will also discuss and go over everything that we need to be doing to make sure that we are on top of things. It sounds like a great program and will be beneficial to have all Payton’s medical information together.
It has been a good week. Payton returned to school and has done well. He was so excited to see Mrs. Robertson and all of his little friends. Payton’s little school friends made me smile as I walked him in and saw how excited they all were to see him. One little kid said “Payton, where have you been?” Another little boy replied “I had surgery too, on my tonsils.” He asked Payton “Did you have surgery on your tonsils too.” Payton didn’t know what to say so he just nodded his head yes. I walked out feeling such joy that he was able to return and such a love for kids, they are great and make me smile. Payton has been tired this week and has been taking naps almost on a daily basis. This has been quite a process recovering from this surgery. I am truly grateful for Payton. Every time I look at him I am reminded of how blessed I am to have him.

The kids are super anxious to get out of school for the summer. I am ready for some days to start sleeping in.