Mon, July 7th and Tues, July 8th - Monday was full of ups and downs. The day started by heading to Dr. Gowda's to have a CBC blood test. The results were good, his counts had rebounded to 1,350. This was also the first day in a few that he had started to feel a little better and not so tired. We went back home and he relaxed for a while. A short time later he said that he wanted to go see a movie. This was the first time in a week or so that he actually wanted to go somewhere. So we went to go see Train you dragon 2. All was good until about 30 minutes to go in the movie when he started to complain that his back was sore. I re-positioned him several times, but he never could get quite comfortable. However, he did stay until the end.

When we got home the pain started to move to his legs and joints. This is the first time since we started this treatment plan that this pain existed. I gave him Tylenol to ease the pain and that seemed to work a bit. Dinner was delivered this evening courtesy of my coworkers in our HR department. Thank you Beth, Helene and Ronit for the delicious meal!

The next day (Tues) the pain was worse. So we called his doctors and they prescribed a pain killer for him. This pain killer did the trick for him, however you could tell he was not feeling well again and he mostly stayed laying down on the couch. He is really starting to lose his hair now. So I got our the hair trimmer and trimmed it pretty short. You can also start to see the weight gain in his face. It's hard to watch this transformation. I have to just keep reminding myself that these are relatively short term affects and also insignificant to his overall treatment.

Tomorrow is a big day for Cole. Another full day for his chemo treatments and testing at the Kimmel Outpatient Center at St. Mary's Hospital.

Our Cole Strong 28 Baseball Tournament is on and all age divisions are filled!!!! However we will need sponsors, silent auction items and volunteers. Thank you to the sponsors who have already come forward and signed up! Please see the tournament website for more info:www.eteamz.com/colestrong.