Today is the day!

Today Matthew starts his official treatment. We start out at the Mayo building at 8:00AM for more blood tests, I guess, I just looked to check times on everything else and we had another appointment added. How nice! At 9:00am we have an appointment at St. Mary's in the Infusion Therapy Center(ITC).  They say that will last about 3 hours.  They have given us a prescription for EMLA cream to numb his arms a little.  We are not quite sure what to expect.  I think I am more nervous about it then anyone else. After ITC we go back to the Mayo building for an appointment with the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology.  The Endocrinology dept. will watch him closely through all of this to make sure he is growing they way that he needs to be.  We took some X-rays of his growth plate in his hand for that last weekend.  Not sure if they are doing anything else at this point or not.  So for now please just keep Matthew and the rest of us in your thoughts!