Headed Home!

The parole board at Riley has voted to release us, so we'll head back home to Kokomo this afternoon after Myla finishes a blood transfusion. As we come to the end of this second round of Myla's chemotherapy, we find ourselves thankful once again for your prayers and the encouraging comments you have sent us! This support has been a great boost to us, and I know Melissa has especially appreciated hearing from those of you who have posted comments on her Caring Bridge website.

It's been said that "timing is everything," and Myla is starting to teethe just as we are heading home. That means that she is likely to get a fever, so there is a chance that we might end up back here in the next couple of days after all. (If she gets any fever over 100.5, she must go back to the Cancer Center after stopping a local hospital to get started on antibiotics). On a humorous note, Melissa said that when mothers ask her what pain killer she gave Myla to deal with the pain of teething, she is likely to tell them, "Morphine." (That's what the hospital would likely give her as part of treating the fever.)

In about an hour, I will attempt to make an uneventful exit from the parking garage. This should be no big deal, because I do this every day. But for whatever reason, strange things have happened during the previous two times we have left Riley as a family to head home. Those of you who have been reading this blog know that I broke the rear axle of our green car the first time we headed back from Riley, and I killed the battery on the Griswold by leaving the lights on last time. So, today I have a third car--the Volvo, and it too is parked on the top floor of the parking garage, just waiting.