A brief home respite

Discharged from the hospital today with no chemo scheduled until Friday and counts still reasonable. We'll be home until Thursday when they'll bring us back for another two days of chemo. We'll probably be in for another three weeks or so after that, waiting for her counts to recover.

Mina Brigitta is happy to be home, but the hospital stay wasn't as bad as I had been expecting. She's gotten into the habit of going for a walk around the floor every morning after breakfast, and then the playroom is open from 10:00-12:00. When we go back in, we were figuring we'll just have to put a mask and gloves on her and keep walking her around. It's good for her muscles, and for her sanity, if not necessarily for her immune system. This morning she wasn't getting anything more from her IV, so I had them unhook her before the walk. She looked back from the door and saw the pole still in the room, and ran over to it and said "Dadda, pole". I tried to tell her we didn't need it because she was unhooked, but didn't get anywhere. So I ended up pushing the IV pole behind her down the corridor even though it was unplugged and turned off.

Tonight at home she was running around the house shrieking, waiting for her momma to chase her. It's really good to see her with so much energy, especially considering the chemo just stopped this morning. She just loves having her "Anta" Teri here too. Between Momma and Anta, Dadda hardly gets any time at all.