Miracle on 155th Street

Matthew went to Phoenix Children's Hospital this morning at 10:00 for his appointment. He couldn't eat after midnight on Sunday, so he ate and ate until 11:59PM. It was funny because he said he felt like he was eating his last supper. haha Dork. His chemo makes his metabolism so fast that he is always hungry. He eats like every 30 minutes. The first thing they did this morning was pump dye through his port into his body, and it took his body 55 minutes to distribute it. The dye was a radioactive sugar solution, and T could taste it as it was being pumped in. He said it tasted terrible; metallic like coins. Then they did his CT scan, and then his PT scan. The scans took about 45 minutes.

T is getting ready to go into the heart of the beast. He was able to put his phone above his head and listen to music during the whole thing.

They wrapped him in those gray straps to keep his arms separate from his body so they didn't blend together in the scan. Then they covered him in a  warm blanket because the room was freezing.

I think this is a really cool shot:

Results!!!!!!! Ok so this first picture is the PT scan they did when he was first diagnosed. All of the black circled in red is the cancer. The black circled in blue are his muscles. His muscles really show up in this scan because they were contracted from the amount of pain he was in. The black circled in green is just his IV. 

This is his PT scan from today. Again, the cancer is the black circled in red. There is very little left! The blue circles his bone marrow that is regenerating. The other black masses that aren't circled are just his other major organs, obviously.

Here are the originals side by side:

These are the results we were hoping and praying for. The rate of Matthew's recovery from cancer is truly a miracle. It's been really amazing to watch and it's definitely a huge relationship and testimony builder.