The AJ Update

Chris set AJ’s bike up on his indoor trainer for a little excercise this weekend.

We are coming up on AJ’s last few treatments at IU/Riley in Radiation Therapy. He has completed 17 treatments and 3 more to go, woohoo! I’m posting a few images that show him getting fitted for his IU/Indianapolis radiation treatments and then I’ll post a couple I took when we went to IU-Bloomington last week.

IU-Cancer Center Indianapolis with Dr. Chang

The IU-Bloomington radiation treatments look like they might be easier to get through just seeing the simulation and AJ agrees. At IU-Ind he had to be face-down as you can see, but at Bloominton he will be face up which I think will be less uncomfortable.

(pardon the quality of the next two, they were taken on my cell phone)

Well, despite what AJ said, I could tell he was a little depressed over the hair loss. He was hoping to grow his hair longer this year because one of the big guys at school he looks up to (Jake R) had longer hair. I’ve told him his hair will grow back but it is shocking to just lose it like he is. The guys banded together this weekend and had a shaving party.

We started with Dad

The Grandpa Steve

Then Austin

And last, but not least, Great Uncle Mike all the way from San Antonio (or Kettle Falls WA sometimes)

The Gang (AJ was a little tired here)

AJ (or Andrew as he sometimes tells people to call him), is a fun-loving, lighthearted 8 year old who happens to have cancer. This blog is setup to show his journey through the disease “Medulloblastoma” in pictures primarily.

I will probably start off where we are now in the progression and then add pages to provide back history. Thanks for reading this and I hope it helps anyone with this disease.