I’m sitting in a very small room right now with my son at Cincinnati Children’s Medical Hospital. It’s basically a large closet with a hospital bed, a shelf, a computer, monitor and owl stickers on the walls. Joey is lying in the hospital bed waiting for his Pet Scan. He’s been given pain medicine and other meds necessary for the scan. He looks so relaxed and peaceful as he watches Frozen on the portable DVD player. His eyes are barely open.

He’s not been this peaceful or pain-free in weeks. It brings tears to my eyes to see him like this, to see him at peace.

We are waiting for his Pet Scan. He has to have medicine in him for 45 minutes before the scan can begin. They will scan his entire body hoping not to find any new tumors. Hoping the Histio has not returned. He has pain in his left leg, hip and ankle. It could be that the Histio is eating his bones away again or that he is having another episode of unexplained pain. Although unexplained pain is frustrating, we are hoping for that. If that’s the case we will probably start physical therapy again.

If it is Histio…. we will kick it’s butt!