It felt a little anti-climactic that we couldn’t get up and walk out of the hospital but who cares – CHEMO IS DONE! There were some happy tears but despite all that excitement he continued to throw up this afternoon and was feeling pretty rough and still isn’t feeling great. Luckily, he’s been asleep since for awhile so hopefully all the rest tonight will do him good because tomorrow is his birthday! Unfortunately, we won’t be doing much for his birthday. Typically on our discharge day we are here in the morning, get discharged early afternoon and then we get home, he takes a shower and then he is pretty much out for the rest of the day. But that’s okay – we will just celebrate on a bit of a delay when he's feeling better.
Our oncologist was excited with us too! She has been so incredible and we are lucky to have her. While this is a huge milestone – we do know that it is just the first of two huge steps in becoming cancer free. Next up is surgery and we know that is an even bigger mountain – but we still need to celebrate this one – and she agreed!
We were thinking back today and counting silly things so without further ado chemo by the numbers:
- 1 Port Surgery
- 20 Chemo Treatments.
- 24 Nights in the Hospital.
- 2 Blood Transfusions.
- 60 Bags of Chemo Drugs.
- 4 Cafeteria Loyalty Cards Completed.
- 4 Different Rooms
- 1 ER Visit
- 30+ Doctors’ Appointments
- 20+ Games of Uno (Most won by Honore)
- 2 Business Ideas (I’m confident we will be on SharkTank one day)
- …and a partridge in a pear tree.