Fun and Laughs at Kings Dominion

Day 79 of 1,278. Fighting leukemia one ride at a time!

We had an AWESOME day on Sunday. Well, Saturday was pretty good too, but Sunday wins the prize hands down.

Sunday we went to Kings Dominion...and had an absolute blast! For those of you not familiar with Kings Dominion, it's a large amusement park about an hour south of Washington. It's probably of similar size and flavor to Six Flags. There are the Nickelodeon characters and the shows. And of course, the rides!!

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A super big THANK YOU goes out to the folks at Growing Hope for making this trip possible. They provide non medical support to families with children with cancer...like meals for the kids spending all day at the clinic and Kings Dominion getaway packages. They are super cool people.

The timing for Kings Dominion couldn't have been any better. The weather was perfect. The crowd was nonexistent. Our ANC count is the highest it's been in a couple of months. And with no chemo for the past two weeks, Carson was feeling awesome! What else could we ask for??

Well, if we were to split hairs, there is one thing that we'd ask for. Sleep! I don't know if it's the medication or just the fact that he is getting older, but that boy of ours is hardly sleeping. Carson seems to have given up naps. Who would give up naps?!? But even with giving up naps, he's not slowing down. He's still going to bed late and getting up early. What's up with that?

Just in case he's reading, I'm including the following open letter plea for help:

Dear Mr. Sandman,

Why don't you come to our house any more? Was it something we said? Did you lose our key? We can get you a new one. Whatever happened, we are sorry and we will do better. I promise. We really miss you! Things just aren't the same since you stopped coming. I wish you would come back. Carson needs you. Jennifer and I need you!!

Oh... forgot to mention...Saturday was the open house for the Falls Church City Maintenance yard. Carson got to sit in the garbage truck, front loader, school bus, snow plow, and many other vehicles. He got a t-shirt and kids construction hard hat...he's wearing the t-shirt today.

I'm writing this from the clinic. Things are going smoothly so far, but we will be here most of the day. We are restarting chemo (since our numbers are finally good enough) and have treatments most everyday for the next two weeks. Please keep Carson in your Prayers!!

Paul.