Remission

On Saturday Leo went in for Chemo #2.  While he had a bit of the Leo bounce back, he was still only at 75-80% - although he did take me for a long walk on Saturday morning.  We'd noticed his lymph nodes weren't swollen anymore, but was this remission? Could it happen this fast?
The folks at VERG were happy to see him (which is nice), and were even happier at his progress and his response to chemo.  In short - he responded as well as they can ever hope for, his side-effects were minor, considering his stage, and he's in clinical remission.
Remission.  It's such a hopeful word, yet, at the same time, it has the spectre of something coming back. That's the heartbreaking part.  He's fine.  He could be well.  He could, if the additional chemo doesn't make him sick, be 95% Leo!  But he has cancer, and an aggressive and insidious one (not that they all aren't).  So, we hope for the best and keep our eyes on him and hope the vincristine kills even more of those damned awful cells, and that we have a bouncing happy Leo for a long, long time.