Just wanted to shout this from the rooftops.
My 7 year old finished his 3 year 3 month treatment for leukemia today!!
He's buzzing, I'm buzzing, the Mrs is buzzing, it's nice to know we can go back to being the 'normal' family we should be.
It's been extremely tough, emotionally, trying to be normal for the other two, worrying, bouts of depression, arguments with the Mrs, upheaval, pressure at work, infections along the way, it goes on......
But it's also been positive in a way?!?!?
We've/the community have raised a fair bit in 'his' name, bag packing, community fun days, cycling Cardiff to holyhead, running the London marathon, the Mrs due to run the London marathon next week.
Hopefully we will never see this horrible disease again but it's sad to see others go through it whilst at alder hey.
Anyway I thought I'd post this one up as I've had a celebration bevvy! 😉
great to have some good news 😀
Fingers crossed you and your family are on the up now 😉
Fantastic news - off to the fridge to get a beer to join you. 😀
Wonderful news. Although that seems a woefully inadequate thing to say. Raising a glass in your honour as i type.
Superb stuff- I'm raising a toast to him now 🙂
You know this kind of thing keeps me going when I'm reading really really dry medical journals. Somewhere someone eventually benefits from the stuff I'm reading about.
How wonderful is that! Congratulations!
thanks for sharing his good news - you've brightened everyones day
hope you and your family have a great celebration - 😀
Fair play to you all.
Bloody brilliant! Best of luck with the next chapter in your lives 😀
That is fantastic news for you & the family, enjoy every moment from now on. Poor kid must have gone through the mill to get there 🙁
I lost my father @ 61 to bone cancer & last year I thought I was going to loose my mother to breast cancer but she's a tough Yorkshire one and has come through it, words can't express that feeling of a loved one beating that sort of illness. If only they could halt my wife's MS.
Great news , really happy for you and your family :-))
Brilliant new, I'm raising a glass to you and your family.
This is superb, I've just said goodbye to my dad in sobell house in Oxford. So happy for you, this is my happy thought to go to sleep on.
All your Christmas/birthdays at once. Don't know you but delighted for you and your family.
That's wonderful, I've seen first hand how traumatic it is for families. Utterly brilliant news
This put a smile on my face, 😀
I don't usually contribute to threads like this but WOOHOO!
Absolutely great news
I'm sure the last 3+ years have been nerve-wracking, to say the least!!
All the best going forward
Yep- good news 🙂
😀 😀 😀 Yay!!!! . . . and thanks for posting!!
Bloody fantastic..!!!!!
Great news.
I think I'll break out the Bowmore. 8)
Fantastic. Just ace. 🙂
I've two lads, 5 & 7.
Can't even begin to imagine what you folks have gone through.
Good stuff. 😀
Great news - hope all the tensions you mentioned disappear and you can enjoy being a family again! 😀
Hurray, drank tea to celebrate as it is early in the day.
Fantastic news.
Great news. .. would raise a big glass but it's a little early. .. 😀
BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!! 🙂 🙂 😀 8) 🙂 🙂
Congratulation to your family. You must all be over the moon!
I missed last nights celebrations but I may have one tonight instead 🙂
Good news and I know what you mean about the experience being positive; my own son had a small accident skiing and compressed a vertebra. The ensuing hospital stay in France and getting him home was a good re-bonding experience for the family when, at the age of 14, he was beginning to be a bit "teenage".
GET IN! Boss news.
I will refrain frm the celebration bevy until this evening though.
hurray. 😀
I can't begin to imagine what your lad & the rest of your family have been through. But man, I'm overjoyed for him. 😀
Fanbloodytasticolious! 😀
fantastic 😀
That Fantastic new.. its great to actually hear of some good news 😀
Great to hear your news and good also to hear of another person beating this...
Healthcare professionals and surgeons are really life changing people...
Have a great weekend
When i saw the topic heading my heart sank...
So, so glad to read the the post beneath the heading though!
This is enough to send me to work with a smile on my face 😀
Great news. I'll lift my glass to you tonight, maybe several times.:-)
Like muddydwarf I saw the thread title and feared the worst. Good start to the day.
Happy Friday everyone:-D:-D
Brillian. Genuinely gave me a good feeling that.
Fabulous, the feeling must be incredible!
All the best to you and your family, from all of mine. 😀
Kev
Da iawn da iawn here's to the future.
Congratulations on coming through what must have been the most difficult of times for all of you. Have fun.
Great news!
Fantastic news, and we'll done for all the work you've put into supporting your family, good luck to your wide on the marathon too.
Also clicked in the thread with a heavy lump in the stomach but I'm soaring now!!!
Thanks for a great start to the day. A Badger Golden Champion will be drunk in his honour tonight.
Now go give him another hug.
Let the good times roll!
Fantastic news & well done.
I hope your lad has a long & healthy life after overcoming this illness.
All the best to your wife on the London marathon too.
Raises glass! Absolutely brilliant!
Great news for you and all of your family. I know a lad who had it about 6 years ago and he is a typical 12 year old boy now. Plays football, fights - a 'normal' boy!!!
All the best
yay! good news friday 🙂
BLOODYFANTASTC!!!!!! 😀
Fantastic news!
It's easy to forget how lucky we are to simply have happy, healthy loved ones
AMAZING NEWS!!!!. Put some of my issues into perspective. Really cheered me up reading OP. Congrats.
Excellent 😀
brilliant 😀
this has cheered me right up. i know how hard it is fighting cancer in a family, but cant imagine how hard it must be when its your child. properly chuffed for you.
well done for being so strong to keep it together.
if i were you i would be rinsing a credit card right now to spoil the whole family rotten 😀
fantastic news
Awesome news.
Like MD and others have said already, I read the title and feared the worst.
Will raise a glass to you and your family later this evening.
As one or two others have already said, when I saw the thread title, I didn't want to open it, but really, really fantastic news. Positive thoughts to you and yours, Mitch.
Wowsers, I can't believe how many responses this has got!!
Thank you for all your thoughts and good wishes. Over ths past 3 years the kindness of '[i]strangers[/i]' has shone through, so thank you. And if its cheered you up then great, my lad has really been an inspiration.
I'll try and get a pic of his happy face on here later 🙂
Fantastic! Lovely to read your good news!
most excellent news! raising a cappuccino in your general direction 🙂
This post has picked me up today, thanks for posting and great news for you and your family.
Maybe we should have a 'Positive Friday Post' PFP, every Friday 😉
Fantastic news!! 😀
Nice to read a positive story on cancer! Excellent news for your son and all concerned.
I'd second the notion of a "PFP" to get the weekend started.
i'll be raising a glass in your family's direction later OP 🙂
great news
From the title I didn't want to open this thread but that is fanastic news for you all.
fantastic news
Fantastic, congrats and fingers crossed all round.
Excellent news. Congrats!
You made me well up! Lovely thread, good luck!
I hope he never forgets that every moment was hard won. We have a friend in our cycling group that came back from cancer, he lives every day like it was a prize and makes sure everyone else does. It's infectious.
If every group of friends had someone like this, the world would be a better place.
Wow - that's some ordeal and I'm so happy that you're all out of the other side. Such good news. Many, many congratulations and best wishes. 😀
Congratulations! That is brilliant news.
I'll just go and buy one of those Jaffa Cakes to celebrate.
Wow! Wonderful news 🙂
Huzzah! Without doubt the best thing I will read for a while! 😀
Great news - delighted for you all. Will have a drink tonight for sure!
Congrat's! It's always nice to hear some great news 🙂
nice 😀
Great stuff 🙂