Almost Fnished

Almost finished!
Posted 14 hours ago
Julian goes in for his last round of chemo tomorrow! So happy that he is at the finish line and can't wait for him to feel better and get back to living life again. He has been such an amazing trooper through everything. It will take about six weeks to recover from this round and then his hair should start coming back again and he'll hopefully be feeling much better. We'll have to work on his eating so he can have the NG tube removed and he'll have lots of MRIs and follow-ups, but at least we're just about done with chemo!!!
This morning he had an audiogram done at Providence and, incredibly, there was no change since the last hearing test done in November and even a very slight improvement. The doctor said it could be that he was more focused on listening for the sounds this time, or maybe even due to the special medicine he was given before his last round of cisplatin. Probably we'll never know, but it is very encouraging. He'll be getting that medicine again to help protect against the effects of cisplatin tomorrow. We're so thankful that there are these options and that his hearing is stable right now. In a few weeks, he'll have another hearing test and then receive his hearing aids. He wasn't too thrilled about the idea of wearing hearing aids, but once he's in a classroom full of kids and sounds, he'll be glad he has them.
Well, gotta go and pack our bags!
P.S. Months ago, I asked for prayer for a boy named Noah. He passed away last October. His mother is amazing and just wrote a beautiful update. The name of the Carepage is NoahDowell.