Tomorrow will be the end of the second week of consolidation; Léo did beautifully! Still no side effects whatsoever… such a relief for us! 🙂 He is active, running everywhere now (his limp is almost gone: yeah!), living his little life like it should be at 2 years old. He is having trouble to share “his” IPad with his sister, who obviously doesn’t always appreciate it…! Charlotte has been so nice and patient with him, which is also really heartwarming. Both are so happy to be back home together.

Yesterday Léo got a transfusion, “a little boost” (as they call it at the hospital… put this way into perspective, frankly it’s not that bad!!) to help with his blood counts. His lips were really colorful this morning! We didn’t even notice that he was anemic: not even tired from it! Sometimes we feel like this treatment will actually go by quickly if everything still goes smoothly like it has been lately… and we want it to go as quickly as possible, get over with it and be in maintenance with a chemo taken orally only once a month for the next 3 years… ah, that will come! His treatment schedule is becoming our routine and we keep our fingers crossed that he doesn’t get sick!

After this first part of consolidation, i.e. starting next week, we will go to clinic only on Tuesdays to get different kinds of chemo (and still his spinal taps for 2 more weeks… then it looks like this will be done only once a month!). Then he will start a second round of what we just went through, but without Tuesdays’ sedations and spinal taps. It helps to have a road map as they call it at the hospital: it keeps us going!