"The Avengers is my life"

This is what I have heard several times over the past week or so from Logan. He is so funny. He even said "The Avengers are at Disneyland." To which I replied, "I hope so, maybe we will get to see them." Then he said, "Yeah, because the Avengers is my life." A little obsessed? Maybe. What's a mom supposed to do when her little man feels bad (last year) and only wants to sit on the couch and watch movies? We had been trying to explain the cancer in terms of bad guys in his blood, and the chemo is the superheros going in and fighting the bad guys. So, we tried to show him that while the fight is often difficult, the good guys win in the end. He has taken this to heart, and superheros (the Avengers in particular) has become his obsession. Thankfully there is plenty of Marvel merchandise out there to use as motivators and gifts. He even has new Ironman arc reactor tattoos, and is very proud.

Anyway, it has been a busy week with some ups and downs. Logan had chemo on Tuesday, and it went really smoothly. No big deal, and his numbers looked great with an ANC of 1400. He did start to feel pretty yucky in the late afternoon/evening though with an upset stomach. He was tired and so I made his medicine and planned on putting him to bed early. Well, that did not go well, and lets just say he did not keep the medicine down and we were both covered when the medicine came back up (food coloring and all). Thankfully it all washed out, but not the most pleasant experience of my life. Just comes with the territory. That night, he did not sleep well and then we did not either. On Wednesday he was still a little under the weather and even fell asleep in my lap at his sister's soccer camp. So that afternoon he took a 3+ hour nap, and it seemed to do the trick. He has really felt better since then and has been playing. He is just super cranky and pitiful being on the steroids, but that is par for the course. Just 2.5 more days of those...

Here is a picture of Logan in the toy room at the clinic, and one of him showing off his arc reactor tattoo: