Nick's Treatment Begins...

From Ken:

Nick's treatment started last night at 1:00am. He is being given 3 different chemo's in high doses. Nowadays, they also give some fairly new medicines to help with the side affects of the chemo. Nick seems to be accepting all of them and is mostly tired and resting. He will watch cartoons for a while and then doze back off. He is not his normal happy self but he is in relatively good spirits. Carolyn and I are taking turns with the overnight duty and I am on tonight. The current plan is for Nick to be home on Friday for a couple of weeks until his next round of chemo. We will have to monitor him closely while he is home and bring him to several outpatient visits. The chemo cycles should continue through September. After the second cycle, they will do another CT Scan to determine how much the tumor has shrunk.

On the baseball front, Leanna got her picture in the local paper saying that "Sophomore shortstop Leanna Lynch and her .368 batting average is one reason why Granite Bay made the playoffs." They lost the playoff game but had a good season with a very young team...just wait 'till next year!!! Leanna was told she made the all-conference team for the second straight year.

Lawrence's team had a learning experience last night...translation...they got their butts kicked! I was in the dugout for most of the game but obviously didn't help much. Lawrence did smoke a triple over the left fielders head in the last inning. Maybe he can do that earlier in the game with guys on base next time.

Kenny's team is playing real well and so is he. He is consistently hitting the ball hard and I got to see his best hit of the season last week. He plays again tomorrow.

You can tell that I am just sitting in the hospital bored out of my mind to be writing this much. Back at you again tomorrow.