HALFWAY!!!!! Today Brooke completed her 28th treatment week of the 56 weeks of intense chemo she has to get through before she gets to Maintenance. It took 8 months to get through 28 weeks because of all the times they pause to let her counts come up…but we’re finally here. HALFWAY!!!!

I am experiencing an interesting half-empty/half-full dichotomy in response to this, whereby part of me is saying “Wow, alright! We’re already halfway through it!” at the same time that another part is thinking “WTF?? We’re only halfway!?”.

But whether we’re only or already halfway, we’re still ticking off the weeks one by one and someday we’ll be done!!

Brooke is still doing great, with great spirits and minimal side effects. Aidan is doing well too, overall, and I’m only a little more grey than I was in September.

We had a special dinner to celebrate tonight and the kids each got a small prize to commemorate our progress. Brooke said “Wow, I didn’t know if I could make it this far, but I did it!!”I am so proud of both of these kids. They’re amazing people to be around and they bring out the best in me!