15 months and Counting!

Yahoo!!!! Ethan has now made it 15 months without any of his medications. I am beyond excited for this milestone as he has finally exceeded his old record of 14 months. Ethan continues to fluctuate between trace, negative and sometimes slightly more. But for the most part, he is doing very well, healthy and happy. He is NOT, however, looking forward to starting the fourth grade next week. Adam on the other hand is very excited to be entering Middle School. Wow, I can't believe I am going to have a 6th grader. I remember those years very well, and I am so thankful I don't have to repeat them!

California

We arrived home a few days ago from a wonderful fun filled vacation in California. We took the boys to Disneyland, Universal Studios, Sea World and the San Diego Zoo. We packed in as much as we could, knowing that it would be a long time before we go back again. We drove for 24 hours straight to get there and took 2 days on the way home. The drive home was actually harder than doing it for 24 hours straight. The boys did very well with the driving. Ethan normally gets carsick, as do I, but we both did very well. I came prepared with our sea bands and some homeopathic motion sickness remedies that worked very well. 

A few days before we were to leave, Ethan started having some mild protein. Which was concerning because we didn't want him to relapse while we were away. This would be the first vacation ever, that he would be off all his medications, and we were so looking forward to it. Thankfully, his protein stayed between a trace and 0.3 so he didn't have too many problems, other than some stomach aches. Of course, he did not enjoy all the walking we did. We were thanking God that he was healthy enough to enjoy our trip, knowing that there would be no way we could have done this trip if he was relapsing or on prednisone. 

We were surprised to find out that Ethan does not like roller coasters, we thought for sure he would. Adam took a day to warm up to them and then he was very willing to try new rides. Poor Jeff, he ended up going on the big ones by himself and Adam joined him on a few too. The first day we arrived back home, Ethan went back to negative, go figure! Here is hoping he stays that way.