Chad is currently back at Good Samaritan Hospital in Northwest Portland, for four days of in-patient chemotherapy.

This is Stage 5 of what his doctor has described as an eight stage process of intensive chemotherapy.

Remarkably, Chad is responding very well to treatment. While it is way to early to say anything definitive, the in-patient chemotherapy treatment — in addition to all his out-patient booster shots and spinal taps — has done a wondrous job of fighting his leukemia.

Let’s just hope he continues to the path to recovery. It looks like possibly Chad complete his intensive first stage of chemotherapy sometime early next year, at which point his status will be reassessed in terms of modulating his treatment plan from that point forward.

— Kevin