It has been a very busy week of multiple hospital visits. Ben is now officially "Off Treatment." He had his follow-up visit at the clinic at PCMC on Monday. Let let us know the always welcome news that the MRI he had done on Friday shows that things are stable in his brain and spine. Our next MRI will be in three months, and we are praying for the same good result.

We found out at his hearing test on Monday that Ben's hearing is also unchanged. We are very grateful that the last chemo treatments didn't make it worse! He is very borderline as to whether he would need a hearing aid, so we have decided to not get one for now, and get another hearing test in three months to see how he is doing.

We went up to the hospital yesterday for our monthly eye appointment. Here the news is not so good. His left eye is starting to drift up again, and his right eye is turned in, all due to the brain tumor. Our doctor said that chemotherapy does affect kids eyes in strange ways. (Sometimes the cure is almost as bad as the disease.) Ben will definitely need additional eye surgeries, one on each eye, but our doctor wants to wait a couple of months for things to stabilize, and do it then. I'll keep you posted on that one.

For our final good news, Ben is off one more medication, and gets his central line out on Monday. One more tube will soon be gone! Then he will only have his feeding tube left. Our little guy started out in the PICU with tubes everywhere (he had four chest tubes draining his lungs at one point), and now we are going to be down to one! And we no longer have to give him constant medications all day long, he is only on three now. Our guy has come a long, long way.

As always, thank you for your love, support, and prayers. We pray for blessings back on your heads!