Just Because It's Orange October!

We are still in the hospital...waiting, patiently waiting for Emilie's counts to recover. We have even started to do the "Bone Marrow Dance" and have seen her WBC (white blood count) go from 0.2 to 0.4. Nothing to do with the Bone Marrow Dance, but rather God's hand at work.

As our my patience is tested, our gratitude list continues to grow.....
**Emilie's attitude and appetite are still great and she has been fever free since we were admitted.
**Emilie is attending Stanford (hospital school that is) and getting caught up with her school work.  Her classmates vary in grades from 5th to 12th and she really loves going to school with the big kids.  She even wants to hang out in the cafeteria with the kids between school sessions.  She told me I could be in the cafeteria too, but that I had to sit far away.  Boo Hoo!
**Emilie is getting multiple physical therapy treatments per day.
**Emilie and I are doing some fun art projects at the Forever Young Zone daily.  I'm still waiting to see Steve Young.
**We have seen lots of Giants baseball and have made fast friends with our nurses who are also Giants fans.

Emilie will have her next IT chemo/LP on Friday as well as a bone marrow aspirate.  Please pray that the IT chemo does not have any funky effects on Emilie and that we get to go home in the near future.

Gulfstream 777EE to San Francisco Tower....

...requesting immediate landing due to impatience.  
Emilie is still in the hospital waiting for her counts to recover.  Emilie is keeping busy with school and activities at the Forever Young Zone.  (I'm still waiting for Steve Young to drop in while we are busy making tissue paper flowers.)  School is great here.  Emilie is able to work on her Baymonte curriculum with (almost) one on one attention.  She loves it and even wants to go to the morning session which is saying alot as she is not an early riser. 
Some time ago our family was discussing something (don't even remember what) and Emilie stated, "It's not all about me?".  Such an amazing statement coming from her and it got me thinking about life and getting back to our "regularly scheduled program".  Yes, our life is different now and yes, it will probably continue to change, but it is not about just one of us.  Emilie is correct, it's about all of us; all 5 of us!  So, here we go...back to the original "The Erickson All-Stars" blog and what better way to start with a couple shots of Nicolas and Paul and their street graffiti.

In A Holding Pattern

Emilie had a blip of a fever last week, which took us back to the hospital until her counts recover (SOP).  She has not had a fever since and she's feels great.  It's going to be a long week!  Please pray for really fast count recovery so we can get out of our holding pattern.