Help Cure Caleb- Caleb's Journey

It's hard to believe that one year ago my world shattered in seconds. This past year has been a rough one. I never want to repeat it OR do I ever wish it upon anyone. All year when asked how old I was for someone reason, I always had to bite my tonge because I would almost say 34. I think because mentally I wanted the year to be over and behind us. And now it is. This year as I blow out my birthday candle, Caleb will also blow out a candle on his cake. It will symbolize one year since his diagnosis. As much as I don't like to think about it, a year ago he was days from death. His body was filled with leukemic cells and 34% of his blood stream.  I look back at pictures on my phone of just days before diagnosis and that day and how did I not know. I can beat myself up about that as much as I want, but it won't change a thing. Who would've ever thought cancer, not me, nor did anyone else around me. On March 12, 2012, I didn't have a child with cancer either (well

So yesterday we went to for Caleb's lab draw. It was a quick and easy clinic day. He did awesome with his access to his port. He is such a pro now, telling the nurse how to do it and what comes next. And he didn't even complain about Nurse Lauren's "green" gloves. For weeks Caleb had Nurse Lauren access his port - and she uses a different color gloves than all the other nurses. He complained everytime, so it was funny yesterday when her and I pointed out the green and it didn't even phase him. So he had his lab draw and we went up to the fourth floor to visit his buddy Trevor ( Trevor's Fight ) while he was inpatient getting his chemo. They hadn't seen each other since the holiday party in the beginning of December, so it was great to see them pick up right where they left off - laughing and having fun playing their video games together. And getting into trouble lifting up the hospital bed like it's a rocket ship about to take off - literally up

“And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)   Reflecting back to my status from a year ago. I had this on my personal f acebook status before Caleb was d iagnosed . 11 days before to be exact. And a fr iend reminded me of that st atus when Caleb was dx . A year later, it st ill is one of my favorite Dr. Seuss quotes .   So after having an entire week indoors & on social isolation, Caleb was anxious to get to clinic to find out if he'd be allowed out again. Well, his counts didn't recover as fast as we had hoped, but they are on the rise. Everything went up, except his hemoglobin level remained low. He is still close to transfusion level, but hoping that another week off oral chemo he will recover. Beside having shortness of breath when running around and low energy, he isn't getting headaches or anything else from it being low... so another week of sitting and waiting to see if they recover. He did get the OK to go back to