Round 1, Days 4 and 5

Friday and Saturday

If you're looking for something exciting to read, you might be on the wrong website. Nothing much going on here. Mike is on his last 24hr bag of chemo for this round ....And for THAT, I am SO thankful!

Mike is doing good! He hasn't felt nausea yet, but he is feeling a little more tired each day. His taste buds are dying, so his food is starting to taste a little "blah" to him. He is still in a good mood though. He harasses these poor nurses all day (and night). I think they must like it though, because his nurse Michelle told us that she requested to the previous day's Charge Nurse to be assigned to him. Today his nurse is Brooke, and she is my kind of people. Not because she's pregnant, (I'm not pregnant) but because she's super laid back and funny. She laughs at all of Mike's jokes and sarcasm, so she's his kind of people, too.

The only other news we have is that we have a tentative plan for next week. Tomorrow afternoon he should finish his 3drug Chemo Infusion, then he will have another medication infused which takes about an hour. As soon as all of that is done he will be DISCHARGED from the hospital!! hooray! I mean, they're all nice here, but I want to sleep next to my husband! Monday we have an appointment at 9 for his Neulasta shot, which will boost his counts in his bone marrow. We should have Tuesday completely free, as long as he's feeling ok. Wednesday morning we will come back for lab work. If the labs look ok, then we get to GO HOME! We are missing the kids really bad, so we just keep thinking positive and focusing on getting back there to them. Molly ended up losing her first tooth yesterday when she was at a friend's house. She face timed us and couldn't stop smiling. Mike and I were so excited for her. It's so fun to see your kids get so excited over something. Wish we could have been there. I haven't talked to the tooth fairy yet to see if she got her penny!

Thursday morning we have an appointment at KU Med with our new Oncologist, Dr. Mundis. He did his fellowship training up here at the Mayo Clinic, so he's already got that going for him with Mike. (We all know how devoted Mike now is to this place! haha)

It will make us feel much better to be established with an oncologist that's close by as soon as we get home so that we aren't "in between care".

That's all for now. The only other thing to say, again, is the most heartfelt THANK YOU to each and every one of you. For everything. All the big and little things you do.

Love you guys,

xoxo

Robin