What a Day. It’s 1AM and I shouldn’t be awake so I’m going to try to keep this one short tonight! This morning we started our day by saying goodbye to one of our favorite night nurses. She is off for the rest of the week so last night was our final night with her – she was standing at the foot of his bed at 6:30AM this morning to say goodbye. She, like Tom, is a huge Cubs fan and they bonded over the playoff run and he loved her Cubs scrubs! She had some incredibly kind words for us and wanted to be kept in the loop on his progress. She is a wonderful nurse and we were lucky to have her the nights that we did – however, I’d be lying if I said a 6:30AM goodbye didn't catch me off guard – even though we were awake I wasn’t expecting it. As excited as we are to never return to this oncology unit – we will miss the people so it creates quite the swirl of emotions and no one likes to start their day choked up!
Tom is feeling pretty rough today and a bit disappointed with how early the fatigue and nausea has set it – he is such a champ and I’m completely amazed by his strength but you can tell this round has already been especially tough on him. We only have three more days of chemo to go – so incredibly close – yet so far! I thought this last round would feel much faster due to our excitement of it being the last one but it has been a bit of the opposite and seems to be dragging a bit. Oh well – we carry on and keep working towards Sunday – his birthday and discharge day! Tom will have a bit of an unfortunate birthday because it is one of his absolute worst days, but I told him that if one crappy birthday assures us that he celebrates many more birthdays to come then in a backwards way it’s the greatest gift. Plus – he’s thrown up on his birthday in years past for much stupider reasons ;-)
So, fingers crossed that tomorrow isn’t too rough on him and we will be halfway done with his last round! More to come…
Tom is feeling pretty rough today and a bit disappointed with how early the fatigue and nausea has set it – he is such a champ and I’m completely amazed by his strength but you can tell this round has already been especially tough on him. We only have three more days of chemo to go – so incredibly close – yet so far! I thought this last round would feel much faster due to our excitement of it being the last one but it has been a bit of the opposite and seems to be dragging a bit. Oh well – we carry on and keep working towards Sunday – his birthday and discharge day! Tom will have a bit of an unfortunate birthday because it is one of his absolute worst days, but I told him that if one crappy birthday assures us that he celebrates many more birthdays to come then in a backwards way it’s the greatest gift. Plus – he’s thrown up on his birthday in years past for much stupider reasons ;-)
So, fingers crossed that tomorrow isn’t too rough on him and we will be halfway done with his last round! More to come…