Wonderful News!

We just got home from our post-MRI appointment with the pediatric oncologist, and the news is good!  I was hoping to at least see the tumor was stable, but instead the MRI showed that it has shrunk - a LOT.  At the last MRI (after surgery) the tumor measured 2.4 x 2.3 x 1.4 cm, and today it measures 2.2 x 1.1 x 0.6 cm, a decrease in volume of 80%!  Words cannot describe the sense of relief I felt when the oncologist told me the good news.  Every second of every day, even when I wasn't thinking about, I was still thinking about it.

Finn did so well with anesthesia - when I went back to get him in recovery he was sitting up, flirting with the nurses, and now he's happily playing next to me on the floor.  And I'm taking a deep breath for the first time in 2 months.

The plan is to repeat his MRI in 3 months, and we'll probably continue to do regular MRIs for a while, along with abdominal ultrasounds and urine tests, just to be sure we're not missing anything.  But we can handle that.  After all Finn has already been through, another MRI is easy.

Thank you all for the thoughts and prayers, and for the words of support via comments and emails.  I don't know how I would have made it through the past few months without you all.