Thursday 21st February 2013

Where is the time flying to? Luke has just started his last 3 month chemo cycle. YAY! So all is still on track for an end date of 5 May. He continues to have chemo with the following treatment - a daily Mercaptopurine tablet, a weekly Methotrexate tablet, and a monthly injection of Vincristine. He also take Prednisolone steroids once a month for 5 days. With starting a new cycle it knocked him around a bit and he felt really headachy and tired and had to have a few days of work. He has also started back at university - so his final year doing his Bachelor of Information Technology. Now it's time for my proud Mum brag again - Luke received a letter in the mail from the university saying that he was being awarded the Australian Computer Society Second Year Overall Excellence prize. This prize is awarded to the highest achieving second year student from the Bachelor of Software Engineering, Bachelor of Information Technology and the Bachelor of Business Informatics courses. He won the same award last year as the highest first year student. We are SOOOOO proud of him. What an amazing achievement to get this award 2 years in a row, whilst undergoing chemo and working at DAFF 3 days per week. Luke has an amazing friend, Daniel Sims, who is taking part in the Leukaemia Foundations shave for a cure fundraising event for the third year in a row. If you are able to, I encourage you to support Daniel with his fundraising by visiting the link to the World's Greatest Shave at the bottom of this blog page. (I tried to put the link here but I'm obviously technically challenged and the link didn't work). Luke continues to remain in remission and we are on the countdown for the end of his treatment.