Christopher Court - Back to school
- Christopher Court
- The first visit to CHOP
- The diagnosis
- The kindness of others
- The return home
- The Pinewood Derby
- The mask
- Proton Day 1
- Daily Radiation Treatment
- Ronald McDonald
- Ring the bell
- After the radiation
- Back to school
- Big Brother
- 7th Birthday
- Chemo begins
- Chemo Clinic
- The Day Hospital
- Life on chemo
- September MRI
- Chris suffers a setback
- The MRI results
- Home again
- Make a Wish
- Caring for Chris
- The Next Place
- The final hours
- The legacy
- All Pages
Back to school
The Monday after radiation finished, Chris went back to school. He was welcomed like a hero and everyone wanted to look after him. While he had been away, a toy monkey had occupied his chair. There is a charity called Monkey In My Chair that provides a monkey to take the place of a child at school while they are away for treatment. The classmates take the monkey everywhere they go - to the playground, to lunch etc etc. It is an excellent way to stay connected to the patient.
There was to be a one month gap between the end of radiation and chemotherapy starting. The doctors were also now weening Chris off of the steroids as they should no longer be required to control the swelling around the tumor. Finally he would start to loose all the extra weight they had caused him to gain.