Subj : Childhood Leukemia...  2.
To   : Mark Hofmann
From : Ardith Hinton
Date : Fri Mar 02 2018 02:36:56

Hi, Mark!  Awhile ago you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:

MH>  Things have started to return to normal over here.  I'm
MH>  still getting used to going back to our old "normal".


          I hear you.  Whatever "normal" is to others, it's what works for you 
when your usual routines aren't disrupted by heavy-duty chemo & suchlike.  :-)



MH>  The Maintenance Phase lasts until around June of 2016.  Mostly
NH>  just oral meds, but nothing that strong to make him sick.


          [Chorus:  Hallelujah!]  :-))



MH>  All his hair is growing back already, too.


          Now that you mention it, our daughter was just entering preschool at 
the time her hair started growing back.  I'd been warned that other kids might 
tease her... but I suspect that's more of a problem with age 10+.  The problem 
from her standpoint was that kids of +/- her own age wanted to feel her "chemo 
cut" with their fingers because they had never seen anything like it.  At that 
age they just do it, of course, without requesting permission... [wry grin].

          From my standpoint she looked as cute as a bug's ear, and some women 
Dallas & I knew were paying $100... twenty-five years ago... for haircuts like 
that.  What's currently fashionable in suburbia &/or on Snob Hill takes awhile 
to trickle down to the common masses in Vancouver.  I found it rather amusing, 
however, when our daughter achieved the same results as a side effect....  ;-)



MH>  It was a crazy year last year, but I'm glad we keep moving
MH>  in the right direction.


          You said a mouthful there!  Anyway, I'm glad for you too....  :-)




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