7 treatments left after today. Today’s treatment went just fine. After treatment, Jude opted for instant gratification — a Transformer decepticon from the toy shelf, rather than a $10 gift card. Jude’s hair is looking really crazy. He’s missing almost all of the hair from the left side of his head, right down the middle of the head. It is tempting to shave the left side in a perfectly straight line so that the 1/2 hair look looks intentional. But, Jude doesn’t want to lose any more hair than he has already lost.
We’ll have a busy weekend. Tonight we are heading for Kentucky. Andy is dragging us to yet another state fair — the Kentucky State Fair. Then on Sunday we’ll tour the Louisville Sluggers factory where they make baseball bats. I’m pretty excited about that. Given that I grew up working in a factory (working for my parents for a dollar an hour until I was 16 (or so I like to say)), I love touring factories and learning how stuff gets made. I’m sure we’ll end up taking home some baseball bats that the boys will probably use as swords.  On the bright side, we’ve met the $12,000 family out-of-pocket maximum on our health plan for this year so we all get free ER visits for the rest of the year.