Champion

Well, my little Mr. may not be considered a champion right now in some circles.

He can't run as well as kids his age. The vincristine and months of other chemo have taken care of that for now.

His hair certainly doesn't set any records for growing in the fastest. Yes, we're still very bald.

He doesn't know many of his letters or numbers. Well, that one has nothing to do with leukemia and everything to do with the fact that if it doesn't involve a truck or car - he's not interested.

He's not "in" to sharing. Haven't had to do that for months and months.

He doesn't eat his vegetables, he doesn't eat his fruit. Heck, he may not even eat a meal-unless a chocolate bar counts.

He is a champion at taking his medicine though......

Bitter, yucky tasting, daily chemo of 6MP, weekly methotrexate, 5 day bursts of prednisone and weekend bouts of twice daily bactrim are no match for the following recipe, a glass of gingerale and The Master Medicine Taker.

crush the pill(s) , dilute with 3 ml water, add strawberry syrup to total 2 tsp

I get tired of mixing up the meds and I complain; but Carson takes them like a champ EVERY time with NO complaints. Two sips and two seconds...he is done and back to playing.

In our circle, he's a champion.