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Kam went to the cancer clinic on Friday for his weekly check-up and possible admission for his next round of chemotherapy. He made counts and was admitted to the hospital yesterday. Last night he got his 7th (to last) round of chemotherapy. This is the medicine that causes the blisters on his hands and feet. A very rare and unfortunate side effect. He has already experienced blisters to both feet the previous round of chemotherapy, that seem to be healing well. One of his cancer doctors told him "you know that's really weird, right?" I explained to Kam that was doctor code for "you've been super interesting and we plan to talk about you at our next conference with all our doctor nerd buddies."

He also had his monitoring chest CT his last hospital admission, which showed the 5 nodules in his lungs remain unchanged since his initial diagnosis in April. Furthermore, the oncology team and radiologist said the appearance of these nodules "don't look like cancer." All things considered, this was the best news we could get! The plan is to keep watching them for any changes.

So far, this hospital stay, he has remained quite "boring." Which, in the cancer world, is a very very good thing. It's never good news as the patient or family to be interesting or exciting to your medical providers. He underwent a screening echocardiogram (an ultrasound of his heart) yesterday to monitor for any heart side effects, known to be possible with one of his chemotherapy medications. This turned out normal and unchanged. For now, Kameron mostly rests. He occasionally asks for food or watches videos on his phone. We like boring. Boring means you get to go home, once your treatment is done, as anticipated. 

Today, we got some unexpected good news. One of the oncology doctors (Kam has a team of 4 doctors) rounded and notified us that his next chemotherapy cycle, some of the medication can be done in their office and he may not need to stay in the hospital next week! This was very wonderful and exciting news. No offense hospital, thanks for saving our man-cub and all, but we would LOVE to see you a lot less than we already have to! This means of his 6 chemotherapy treatments he has left--- only 4 more would require a hospital admission. 

Should Kam make counts for each of the 6 remaining chemotherapy treatments, he will likely be discharged on or around his birthday. Please keep this in your prayers. Kam has been brave and strong this entire battle. He has continued to desire to be done in time for his birthday and Christmas. We want this so badly for him and would welcome any and all prayers in this regard. Also, he has started to talk more about what he wants to do after this battle is over for him. Please also keep this in prayer. We know that whatever Kameron sets his mind to, he does. And he does it with excellence and strength. Thank you friends, for joining us in heart and prayer for our guy. It really means a lot to our entire family.