fun is good medicine

let's start by reporting that logan ate ALL of his pad thai when friends ruby and phil, along with ruby's mum heidi and sister zoe, took him to lunch at the royal thai restaurant last saturday.

then sunday was the boston celtics-atlanta hawks game, to which we were treated by the kind and generous charter school students in mr. williams' seminar class. 7th row loge seats, 4 of 'em, and i DID tell logan he could invite whomever he wanted; he was not required to bring his parents and sister! luckily (for us), he invited us, how sweet is that? logan will write a short note soon, but suffice it to say he had a raucously good time, as did we all. thank you CCLCS!

tonight, as i write this, logan is in fort myers, florida, on a 3 day teen-trip organized by dana farber's jimmy fund, to spend a day at red sox spring training. that will be a blog entry unto itself, one that logan will need to write, too...

these fun outings work wonders on a cellular level, it seems. logan is the strongest he has been since december. for 3 months he has been losing weight steadily, going from an athletic 160 to a disconcertingly low 120 lbs a few weeks ago. now, his appetite has returned big time, and he has bounced back to 135 lbs. this is a fantastic measure of his vitality, the reassuringly right direction to be heading.

or maybe it's the frequent home tutoring he is getting which is strengthening him, the energizing acupuncture treatments he is receiving in home visits by the generous arthur teubner, and always the fortifying emails and visits from friends. whatever the reason, something is working, or everything is working, and logan is looking and seeming a little more like his old self, albeit still bald, every day.

thursday we will start 3 more days of chemo, this time outpatient, meaning logan is not actually admitted to children's hospital. we will go in every morning, receive the chemo through the implanted broviac catheter, and stay with friends nearby every night. on milder days logan has taken little walks, or done some gentle time on the rowing machine. he even strapped some ankle weights on one day to walk around the house. therapy such as this is a full time job, with rewards as gratifying as it gets.