Big Rig's Oil Change

Aug. 10
2:30 Rigdon recieved his first treatment.  It took a little while for him to get calmed down after coming out of the anesthesia for the port placement.  He slept for a while in Brooke's arms while we waited for the Doctor's and Nurses to get to us, there is so many other kids in the Oncology unit recieving thier treatments.  Primary Children's is an amazing place that really knows how to take care of the children.  If ever you have an opportunity to donate to Primary Childrens I know I will be experiencing first hand the extra care and attention they give to the chilfren there.  Finally got home at about 5:00 ate dinner and headed up to Morgan.  Brooke's mom watched the kids again.  Rigdon was so happy to see his brother and sister's, crawling all over the place and playing with them, he had not seen them all week.

Aug. 11

Brooke and I went on a club bike ride up in the east canyon damn area.  It was very nice to have a stress outlet, thanks to SimplyMacRacing.  Shauna said that Rigdon woke up very happy, probably because he did not have to go directly into the car seat and to the hopital.  He was also very happy to eat because usually he could not eat until after the tests.  Although he does hate having to take all his medicine especially the Prednisone.  It is some nasty stuff, it smells like the liquid glue you put on a cut or the liquid wart remover, I got a tiny bit on my lip while he was trying to spit it out and even after wiping it off I could still taste it on my lip, totally disgusting.  But just from the treatment and the steriods his lump behind his ear had already decreased by half by lunch time.  He also is a lot more active and jabbering more, probably cause he can hear a little better. After the bike ride we wnt home and the girls went to a neighbors birthday party, Rigdon and Mommy slept, Jaygen and I watched a movie.

Aug. 12
Rigdon woke up this morning very happy again until medicine time anyway, he did take it better though.  things are looking very good today, his skin is clearing up and lump is looking smaller.  Rest of the day will be filled with Church and spending time with the family.