Hi, Mark!  Awhile ago you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:   
      
   MH>  Things have started to return to normal over here.  I'm   
   MH>  still getting used to going back to our old "normal".   
      
      
             I hear you.  Whatever "normal" is to others, it's what works for you   
   when your usual routines aren't disrupted by heavy-duty chemo & suchlike.  :-)   
      
      
      
   MH>  The Maintenance Phase lasts until around June of 2016.  Mostly   
   NH>  just oral meds, but nothing that strong to make him sick.   
      
      
             [Chorus:  Hallelujah!]  :-))   
      
      
      
   MH>  All his hair is growing back already, too.   
      
      
             Now that you mention it, our daughter was just entering preschool at   
   the time her hair started growing back.  I'd been warned that other kids might   
   tease her... but I suspect that's more of a problem with age 10+.  The problem   
   from her standpoint was that kids of +/- her own age wanted to feel her "chemo   
   cut" with their fingers because they had never seen anything like it.  At that   
   age they just do it, of course, without requesting permission... [wry grin].   
      
             From my standpoint she looked as cute as a bug's ear, and some women   
   Dallas & I knew were paying $100... twenty-five years ago... for haircuts like   
   that.  What's currently fashionable in suburbia &/or on Snob Hill takes awhile   
   to trickle down to the common masses in Vancouver.  I found it rather amusing,   
   however, when our daughter achieved the same results as a side effect....  ;-)   
      
      
      
   MH>  It was a crazy year last year, but I'm glad we keep moving   
   MH>  in the right direction.   
      
      
             You said a mouthful there!  Anyway, I'm glad for you too....  :-)   
      
      
      
      
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
    * Origin: Wits' End, Vancouver CANADA (1:153/716)