Cousins Conquering Cancer

Well, Steve was given a little detour from our last blog post; the next morning after posting his fine numbers of 0% cancer cells in his bone marrow on the blog, his doctor informed us that that wasn't entirely true. They had sent his last bone marrow sample to Seattle for a "fancy" test where they can see more accurately than here at Primary Childrens. The "fancy" test detected 1% cancer cells in the bone marrow. Those results came back later than our last blog post. So Steve gets to repeat 2 more weeks on the steroids and chemo therapy that he has been on the past month. He will be tested at the end of the 2 weeks to see if he has actually achieved the coveted 0% cancer cells in the marrow. So he is cheerfully getting back into eating enormous amounts of food.

Steve had a fun time of running into his little cousin Carson, (son of Steve's first cousin Jodi (Evans) Mortensen), having a blood transfusion at the same hospital clinic as Steve. What is the chance that Carson (age 2) would be diagnosed with the same leukemia as Steve exactly 2 weeks prior to Steve's diagnosis! We think Grandpa Lew and Grandma Melba have a lot of explaining to do when we next meet up with them .

Steve has started working at his old job, The Arbiter, by computer at home. What a blessing-he's so greatful to be able to do something productive while dealing with this illness. Arbiter Sports.com is the company that does assigning of referees at all levels of sporting events from college to little league, all over the world. Steve does tech support, data importing, and setting up new clients when they join.

Note: we did have a small problem at the hospital of Steve not sharing the toys with Carson-and a small scene ensued.