Doing good!!

Update....it has been a few busy past 2 weeks with Eric's birthday and Austin's -- we are so grateful to be celebrating them together!! Eric is doing pretty good a few sluggish days here and there but I think sometimes he just over does it and before you know it he is tired. He keeps losing weight another 5 pounds again, the nurse asked him if he has a parasite he hasn't told them about cause he is getting skinner and skinner...I am not sure why he is really doing alot better at eating .

We went to the doctors today and his white cells are 4.00, hemoglobin 14, red cells 3.64 and his platelets are 97!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are happy to see those trending upwards again we had a little scare there for a several weeks. We are preparing to fly down again to MD Anderson Cancer Center in Texas to meet with Eric's bone marrow transplant doctors on 6/1/10. I tell you it seems like we were just down there but its already been another 3 months. I am getting a little nervous cause the doctors will decide this visit if they are going to start decreasing him off his immune suppressed and anti rejection drugs. They have been preparing us that this is another really scary time that sometimes they lose patients or they get GVHD or start to reject so I am obviously very nervous. If I could keep Eric safe wrapped in a bubble I would but as he has told me several times " I am not a bubble boy, you have to let me live my life...I have been given a second chance not to waste it and sit around and feel sorry for myself." I understand what he means I just get scared!

Not a day goes by that I don't catch myself watching him happy with the kids, laughing and smiling and I feel so blessed! I am so grateful to the Lord for our blessings and for his donor whom has saved Eric's life. I was thinking that last year exactly at this time we had just flown down and meet his bone marrow transplant doctor's for the first time and was starting the journey...I can't believe where we are a year from then and what Eric has been through. I know the Lord loves us and continues to guide this journey and I am eternally grateful to him.

The Lord works in wonderful and mysterious ways that end up working our better than if we wrote our own story...we had the chance to attend a benefit fundraiser concert for Make A Wish Foundation. It touches my heart so much to see what wonderful magical miracles these wonderful people do for these sick children. The smiles on their faces when they are granted their wishes is priceless it truly is AMAZING! Like they say " There can be miracles if you believe!" I thank all whom donate to such wonderful causes and put a smile on those beautiful children faces! It's breathe taking to watch and you know by that look in their eyes and that smile that for today, for that moment they have forgotten about their cancer or illness and can be a kid like they should be. It touches me to see the hope and joy in their eyes and I just wish I could take away their illness from them. Great job to the volunteers and the people who donate and make that magic possible!!!!