It's Been a Year!

It was May 12, 2006 when we learned that Nick had Neuroblastoma.

What a year it was!! Here is a month by month recap as I remember it without the treatment details that are listed in the blog intro:

• April - Nick attends "Take the field with the A's" and has a blast. That is where the main blog photo was taken.
• May - Diagnosed. Chemo Started
• June - Miserable hospital stays recovering from chemo...Transfer to MSKCC in New York.
• July - Great 4th of July fun in upstate NY and from the "Rare View" rooftop in Manhattan. Great news that the tumor was responding to the chemo and that the bone marrow was clear.
• August - Hospital all month. Successful surgery followed by miserable recovery from chemo.
• September - Things really started turning around as Nick was NED.
• October - Great month with Halloween at home and nothing but a positive outlook.
• November - Gobble Gobble and "routine" treatments that take all day and are painful but things are going well.
• December - Home most of the month. Nick is loving life like he always does.
• January - Happy Birthday to Nickie New Year and a long stint in NY for treatment and testing.
• February - Home all month as we are now on 8 week treatment cycles.
• March - More treatment in New York
• April - It was Nick's choice to take a Mediterranian Cruise for Spring Break and we all had a blast. We followed that up with Testing in NY and he is still NED
• May - Completed all treatments except for on-going 3f8 Antibody.
• May 12, 2007 - 8:30am - Nick is sleeping in while Carolyn, Leanna, Lawrence, & Kenny along with several friends represent "Team Nick" in a cancer awareness run in downtown Sacramento.

Looking forward --- We are "living" with cancer and hoping that the great and brilliant minds of this country and others around world will come up with a cure for this miserable disease. Great strides have been made and there is considerable promise on the horizon. For those of you interested, simply type in Neuroblastoma into Google News and you will find great stories about nano-particle research and potential use of the polio virus to kill this cancer. In addition, MSKCC is now having some success in bringing relapse patients back to NED status. This was unheard of until very recently.