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 Message 342 
 Ardith Hinton to Mark Hofmann 
 Childhood Leukemia... 2. 
 15 Mar 15 23:52:04 
 
Hi, Mark!  Awhile ago you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:

MH>  Things have started to return to normal over here.  I'm
MH>  still getting used to going back to our old "normal".


          I hear you.  Whatever "normal" is to others, it's what works for you
when your usual routines aren't disrupted by heavy-duty chemo & suchlike.  :-)



MH>  The Maintenance Phase lasts until around June of 2016.  Mostly
NH>  just oral meds, but nothing that strong to make him sick.


          [Chorus:  Hallelujah!]  :-))



MH>  All his hair is growing back already, too.


          Now that you mention it, our daughter was just entering preschool at
the time her hair started growing back.  I'd been warned that other kids might
tease her... but I suspect that's more of a problem with age 10+.  The problem
from her standpoint was that kids of +/- her own age wanted to feel her "chemo
cut" with their fingers because they had never seen anything like it.  At that
age they just do it, of course, without requesting permission... [wry grin].

          From my standpoint she looked as cute as a bug's ear, and some women
Dallas & I knew were paying $100... twenty-five years ago... for haircuts like
that.  What's currently fashionable in suburbia &/or on Snob Hill takes awhile
to trickle down to the common masses in Vancouver.  I found it rather amusing,
however, when our daughter achieved the same results as a side effect....  ;-)



MH>  It was a crazy year last year, but I'm glad we keep moving
MH>  in the right direction.


          You said a mouthful there!  Anyway, I'm glad for you too....  :-)




--- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+
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