No Answer
I completely acknowledge the fact that my weeds in the garden analogy fails to even attempt to answer Austin’s primary question: Why do children get cancer? I have no answer for that one, other than the unsatisfying response I give Braedan every time he asks it: Bad luck.
“Bad luck” is simply the best I can do, because children with cancer sure doesn’t make any sense to me.
But, sensible or not, we live with it so … we’ve had a fine week. Austin went to school for another three days, including a field trip to the Nature Center “to look for bugs.”
His labs on Monday were fine so he didn’t need any blood products until today when we had one of our full day transfusions. He’ll be back in the morning for platelets, which we expect each day next week as well. His other blood counts are too low to allow him at school anyway so I guess we might as well spend our days in the hospital, watching construction from the wrong side of the window.
Today I made your blueberry cake – for the first time. I think it was my way of connecting with you – even though we are not close enough to provide meals, carpools, etc. I did find that there is a curesearch walk in Ann Arbor in August – so thank you for suggesting that. As always we send our good karma to all of you – and are keeping you in our thoughts. Love and hugs, Donna and Tom
Krissy-
I am registered under Akron, sorry, did so before I knew about Team Austin! We will wear red! By the way, did he find any bugs?
Ann