5/6 of the way to Radiation

In the Frog Pond Room, last of the Yaukey Clinic rooms for kids for us, depicting the ice skating in Boston Common.


Today Orion finished his fifth cycle of chemotherapy. It did not go so well as his blood pressure kept dropping from the etoposide flow rate. So nurse Patty kept slowing it down making for a long afternoon. We were in high spirits though because we had just come from an appointment with neurosurgeon Ziv Williams who did Orion's surgery, The Endoscopic Third Ventricularostomy, a lifetime ago on December 24th 2010. He told us that there were no issues, the tumor was gone, that the cranial spinal fluid was flowing naturally and there would be no more abnormal pressure. There was no longer a need for a surgeon. He was blown away that Orion is going to Michigan for the physics PhD program (he is a Stanford man himself).

Then Orion's oncologist Dr. David Ebb popped in to tell us that the entire MGH team of oncologists and neurologists had a meeting to go over Orion's progress and unanimously agreed that the cancer was gone and that the final leg of treatment was on track for a complete cure by mid July.

That now means he can get an apartment in Ann Arbor for his new life as a physicist. A year to remember for all of us.