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As if I needed one more reason to love Shriner's Hospital... Last week, Steven was able to go to Shriner's UnLimbited camp at the Park City National Disability Center. Here is a link to a news story about the week .  And this one at Deseret News.   And another at Park Record with lots of good pictures of Steven.  (He's in all black with some blue on his coat.) He came home so excited that he had learned to ski.   He also just had a blast with the other kids that were at the camp.  Several of the kids were cancer survivors as well, and I could tell that he really just loved getting to know some kids that knew about some of the stuff he deals with. I was nervous to send him off for the week, but seeing him so happy with his new skill and so excited about the friends he's met, I am really happy he got to go. Here is a picture of him from the KSL story.  He's with Drew, who is also a rotationplasty kid

It's been an extremely rough couple of weeks watching Alisa go through this awful cancer stuff.  There have been so many times when she just doesn't seem like quite herself--the pain and medication is just too much.  But even when she's a little crazy, I love to be around her because she is still there, only almost like she is behind some cloud.  It's hard to describe. Yesterday, though, she called me and it was just like the old Alisa saying "Hey, what are you doing?"  It was just an absolute breath of fresh air.  When we talked, it was as if the past few weeks were just a dream in the past and she was all back.  I went up to the hospital and visited with her.  She was all herself, but there was a sadness that I haven't seen much in my very hopeful, fierce cancer-fighting sister.  As we talked, I felt like it was just dawning on her that she might not win this fight after all. I can't describe how hard that is on so many levels.   There is t...