Thankfully, Lauren seems to be doing much better. What a scary and stressful week. Even though Lauren is feeling better, counts have yet to drop (while we don't like or want them to drop, they will). Hil thinks Lauren will be admitted on Wednesday, I think Thursday, and Lauren, always the optimist, thinks she won't go back at all. We all hope she is right, but we don't want her to get her hope up.

We've started Lauren's GCSF shot on Saturday (given to her by Hilary) and they will continue for 10 days or until her counts go up (after they go down). She has an appointment for labs to check her blood counts. She had a blood transfusion on Friday, which seemed to help. She'll probably need a few more blood and platelet transfusions later this week.

We saw our friend Tish at the Ronald McDonald's House this past weekend. She has been staying at the RMH since July. Her son Thomas (7), who also has a tumor and was under the same Head Start Protocol as Lauren, but had to withdraw because the cancer spread to his spinal cord, received good news. I don't know all the facts or details other than the MRI on Friday was good and that he can now start the high intense chemo treatment, similar to Lauren's treatment, also followed by a bone/stem cell transplant/rescue. We're so happy to hear the good news. We parents with sick children, just need "Hope."