Owen’s Leukemia – Day 26

Right before Owen was diagnosed, we were at the mall as a family, and Santa was there.  Owen was so scared (as he has been every year that he has been alive) and didn’t want have anything to do with him.  Lately, he has had a change of heart.  He has been saying “When we go back to the mall, I want to tell Santa what I want for Christmas.  I won’t be scared.”  Jeff and I knew that we weren’t going to be able to take him to the mall due to his counts and the risk of him catching something, so we told him that we would right him a letter so that Santa would know what he wanted.  And then…. a special visitor showed up at our house today!!!

And he wasn’t scared!!!  He loved him and wanted him to stay and play  One more reason why Owen’s school is awesome… they contacted me and said that they would be having the brunch with Santa at the school this upcoming week, and since Owen was obviously not going to be able to be there to participate, that they would send Santa to our house if we wished.  How amazing is that?!?  I can’t say how thankful we are enough.

Owen had a good rest of the day.  We did have a small incident that for a minute thought we might be heading to the hospital… Logan was playing and knocked Owen in the nose with his head and gave Owen a nosebleed.  For any typical kid, you wouldn’t think anything of it… but a kid with Leukemia, it can become a huge deal.  If he ever has any bleeding that lasts longer than 10 minutes we are heading to the hospital.  Luckily, it stopped after a few short minutes.