Remaining focused...

No news is no news. No news on the test results yet but should be hearing something any minute. Our Hero has been relaxing and saving some energy (not even wasting his energy for conversation - he'll let the tests do the talking for him) for what we are sure will be a big celebration when the results arrive. Although he's been pretty fatigued and bloated and swollen from the steriods (the general consensus is that he's looking about 8 months pregnant which is big but the docs say he'll look full-term by the end of the 28 days.)

In an effort to relieve some of the discomfort for the distended stomach, etc. from the steriods - everyone (led by big brother Paul) are working very hard to cut out as much salt as they can. JoJo has requested everyone join the 'salt strike' with him - sheesh it's not enough that he gets himself healthy, he is trying to get everyone else healthy too... or maybe it's just the salt-free unhappy loves company. It seems to have helped some but he's still a bit uncomfortable. But even with all of the change Team Taylor has not kept him from his precious cheese or when SOMEONE cracks and lets him have some BBQ chips (i.e. MOM.) But we can't blame her for that too much - would any of you be able to deny a hero his chips? I think not.

Although he's a bit too uncomfortable to play video games - he has indulged his creative side a bit and done some art and some puzzles. It's exciting to all of Team Taylor when the Mighty Joe rises to 'get his puzzle on!'

UPDATE!!! UPDATE!!! UPDATE!!!
THE TESTS ARE IN AND TO NO ONE'S SURPRISE BUT TO EVERYONE'S UNADULTERATED JOY, OUR HERO, JOSEPH, AKA JOJO, AKA JOE, AKA THE MIGHTY JOE, HAS GONE DOWN FROM 98% LEUKEMIA BLASTS IN HIS MARROW TO.... DRUM ROLL... 1%. YEP YOU READ THAT RIGHT, IN A MERE 2 WEEKS JOJO HAS JOINED THE RAPID RESPONDER CLUB! THANKS TO ALL FOR THE PRAYERS AND THOUGHTS BUT THERE IS MORE WORK TO BE DONE SO KEEP IT ALL COMING.

SPEAKING FOR EVERYONE - WE COULDN'T BE MORE PROUD OF YOU JOE. VIVA JOJO!