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Kade has been happier at home, playing and acting like his most usual self. He has however, figured out that he's got almost everyone wrapped around his finger, enjoying the extra attention and has had to have a couple attitude adjustments to remind him he's four and there are rules to bossing people around. He's like the rest of us, we all enjoy being treated like royalty and if we take advantage; we need to be reminded that we aren't after all, once in a while! (I, myself, rather like my title as Queen of my household.) As many people know, Kade is set to go back to Children's tomorrow for another round of Chemo. Given that he's been home a few days now, it could be a difficult day taking him back. We're guessing he won't be one bit happy about it. Hopefully a new round of video's and gaming helps take his mind off things. Kade has started to lose his hair from the treatments, this is normal and expected during chemotherapy. He saw the stylist and got a new buzz cut to help transition him into baldness and daddy was most supportive and got a matching buzz cut. (Elaine reports it looks a bit funny but no pics have surfaced as of yet.....)Lorna
With his allergic reaction under control, his kidney's functioning better; Kade is coming home today, Dean and Elaine have been in training to care for him. They may just earn an honorary degree from all the information they've had to learn to bring him home and care for him!
Kade will return to Children's Hospital on Wednesday for a 5 day course of chemo and barring any reactions, may go home again after that. This could be the new routine for a while as his chemo treatments are in an on/off rhythm.
Will Smith in "Hitch"
Kade is now off the IV and has his catheter removed. This allows him to be mobile and be outside with his brothers blowing bubbles! There is a possibility he'll be going home soon as an outpatient. His dad and mum are learning how to flush the tubes and about nutrition in order to help facilitate the move home. Crossing our fingers!Lorna Faulkner
Many of us aware of Kade's illness want to help monitarily and understandably so. We acknowledge that some things are never covered under medical or extended plans and while Dean and Elaine would never ask for anything, many people wish to help in this way, so to facilitate this, we have opened an account at TD Canada Trust for him.
One option is to go to any TD Canada Trust and make a deposit to Account #6505175 (Dean McBurney).
Another option is to email money transfer to care4kade@hotmail.ca
In your online banking, there will be an option for transfers. There should be an option after clicking that for email transfers, if it does not already state "email transfers". If you have never done it before, you will have to activate it, following the instructions on the screen.
Once activated, you can email money transfer to careforkade@hotmail.ca but note: you will have a question and secret answer to fill out at one point during the transfer and Dean or Elaine will have to know the answer (or password) in order to fully facilitate the deposit. (For example: you can choose the question "What is my favorite movie" and they would have to answer whatever you put in as the password.)
I HIGHLY recommend that the answer NOT be sent in the transfer itself but sent alone in a different email, a PM to their facebook or even call them and let them know what you set as the answer (password.) We must think of security and if anyone else got that password and hacked the email, while the money could be traced, it would just be one more thing to worry about.
One could also consider using a question Dean and Elaine already know the answer to, for example, when their birthdays are or what is my nickname for Dean or things like that.
Please comment if you have any questions or concerns.
Lorna Faulkner
Kade has been happier at home, playing and acting like his most usual self. He has however, figured out that he's got almost everyone wrapped around his finger, enjoying the extra attention and has had to have a couple attitude adjustments to remind him he's four and there are rules to bossing people around. He's like the rest of us, we all enjoy being treated like royalty and if we take advantage; we need to be reminded that we aren't after all, once in a while! (I, myself, rather like my title as Queen of my household.) 
