The Glad Game

We have a big week ahead of us here in Boston.  We meet with the MGH doctors for radiation planning.  In some ways it feels like we're stepping back in time three and a half years to when this whole thing started with Emmett...and that thought is terrifying.  However, we're not in the same place now that we were then.  We're far from it.  And it's been helpful the past few days to count the ways things are better now than they were then.


We're already connected with the best doctors for Emmett's cancer

Whatever this is, it's growing very slowly.  Emmett's tumor was fast growing before, at least at one point.

We're discovering whatever this is at the very earliest stage of visibility instead of being rushed into emergency surgery when Emmett stopped walking.  This provides the doctors the opportunity to be methodical and deliberate.

There are new treatment protocols that are showing promise against atrt

I don't have fears about losing my job like I did last time.

Emmett is doing wonderful clinically.

Emmett can communicate and tell us what he's feeling now that he's older.

This may not be cancer.

We've been in a much worse place than this before.  We've been told there's nothing left to do and your son likely won't make it.  And Emmett pulled through.

Yes, things are much better now than they were then.  And we're hopeful that this isn't a big deal at all.  We appreciate everyone who has been praying and fasting for us the last few weeks.  The ward back in Albuquerque fasted for Emmett last Sunday, and more people fasted this week.  And we've felt the strength of those prayers!