I am going into the hospital for another chemotherapy treatment.
The last three weeks have been great. Last Sunday was my brother Joey’s 13th Bithday Party (he will be 13 years old on November 10). My dad networked four X-Box’s for Joey’s birthday party. All 16 kids played Halo, capture the flag on 4 different TV sets, all at the same time.
On October 31st I went to visit my classmates at Resurrection and watched the movie Babe with them. It was really nice to see all my friends. We asked all the kids at school to come and “trick or treat” at our house for Halloween since I didn’t go out. My mom and dad decorated our front porch with hay and a skeleton scarecrow and smoke and scary music. It was really cool. I have been watching a lot of scary movies lately and they really don’t scare me. What could be more scary than having cancer!
This year all the kids at my school did a penny drive to support me and my cancer. They raised $2,600 and that works out to be 260,000 pennies! An anonymous donor gave as much money as everyone raised and half of the gift goes to support me and half of the gift goes back to Resurrection School. My parents are trying to decide which organization to give the funds to and I will let everyone know. I want to thank everyone with all my heart for collecting all the pennies.
The best part of the last 3 weeks since my last chemotherapy treatment was not getting a fever and having to go into the hospital! I still spent a lot of time in the Clinic and Day Hospital. I had 3 blood transfusions and 3 potassium infusions. The chemotherapy is killing my cancer but is also damaging my kidneys and that is why I need to take potassium and I started having high blood pressure. High blood pressure is not good because it makes your heart work harder than it should. I started taking high blood pressure medicine in a liquid (like cough syrup). I also get high blood pressure medicine through a patch that is on my chest. The patch is cool because it is like a band-aid and it gives me medicine through my skin.
That’s the News from Nick. Thank you and say a little prayer for me.