JUNE/JULY UPDATE

June continued to be a good and uneventful month, (and the weather remained dismal). Casper had frequent visits with friends and attended his nursery school on a regular basis. He is so social, something neither of us attribute to ourselves, so he thrived being back with his old buddies again. His last day of school (for the time being) was on July 6th and we started Re-Intensification July 7th.

As I mentioned earlier, this is a two month phase involving regular treatments with a variety of powerful drugs, some which he's already taken, and others which are new. So far he's been doing well and is taking his intensified chemotherapy regimen without too many side-effects. He also finished the first of two alternating on-off weeks of steroids on Wednesday. We are enjoying the week off right now and he begins his second round this coming week. Again, his response so far has been better than anticipated. Other than the expected immense mood swings and some weight gain, his legs were not affected this time, we're hoping this will be the case next week.

Over the next couple of months the treatments should wear on his immune system and lower his white blood cell counts again, so we're just crossing our fingers and hoping things continue to go smoothly. We will post updates more frequently just to keep people up-to-date on his progress during this time. We are also posting a recent video on this page and some new pictures on the photo page from this past month.