Great Weekend and It is that time again

Hello All,
We have a wonderful long weekend with the family and friends. Colby had his first football game and Nick will start baseball this week. We enjoyed having some friends over on Saturday night, 4-wheeling, and smores by the bonfire. Monday we took advantage of the sunny weather and headed to the beach for the day. The waves were great and Nick and Colby ditched their boogy boards for body surfing. My sister and he kids joined us and we had a fun time.
Tomorrow Nick is scheduled for his spinal (lumbar puncture). He receives this procedure every 18 weeks and I can not believe how fast the last 18 wks have gone by. This is positive for us because we are moving further out to acheiving our goal of being off treatment. It will be a long day for us. We go to clinic to access his port, get his counts down. He will receive Vincristine through his port and steroids and Methotrexate through his spine. We go down to the PICU recovery floor and can watch the procedure. The doctor will also take a sample from his spine and send it off to pathology to check for any leukemia cells. We usually have the answers back that day but could be on Thursday. Nick is not a big fan of getting his 'sleepy' medicine and always wakes up right away. They like to have him lie down for 30minutes after the procedure is down but he is usually up and telling us it is time to leave 15 minutes after he is done. We'll take him to lunch and then home to rest for the day. Since this is a start of a cycle he will also start 5 days of steroids and 6MP at home. Hoping tomorrow goes okay.
I forget how easy it is talk about the day tomorrow. Nick has endured over 12 of these procedures in the past 2 years, while on chemo, taking steroids, through radiation treatments and he can still have a smile on his face after we leave the hospital. Greg and I will be anxious tonight and go through the motions with Nick tomorrow but the constant worry will be there until we actually have the tests back.