Cancer Free!

Max's year-and-a-half cancer check up came back clear!

Max like always was a champ when it came to getting his scans.  No more anesthesia for Max, he laid so still and was able to drink his contrast before and got his contrast injection during the scan without any complaint.

Max was super excited to checkout all the new Toy Story decals that decorate the machines.

Our Oncologist was very pleased to see today's scans, this is a big milestone, given that neuroblastoma is the most aggressive form of childhood cancer. For Max to continue to be cancer free this long really increases his long term survival rate.  We now get to start spreading our scans out to every 6 months instead of every 3 months, so we can start to minimize his exposure. If the cancer will start to grow at this point it would most likely be localized in his abdomen so it will be much easier to look for as opposed to testing his whole body.

Here is a brief interview of our head Oncologist:

While his cancer is in remission we are still working hard to get his auto-immune disease into remission. We are still fine tuning his medications, we had to increase his meds quite a bit before our trip, which gave us an increase in other things like blood pressure, blood sugar, headaches, and more weight loss.  We are hopeful that his body is managing the meds and we would appreciate prayer as we continue to taper meds to a more manageable level as to limit the long term side effects.   As frustrating as it can be some days, we continually thank God for blessing Max with this rare auto-immune disorder, had it not been for an extra awesome immune system trying to combat the cancer we wouldn't have found the silently growing tumor, had we not found it when we did, Max probably wouldn't have made it this long.  So many blessings to be thankful for!