Eric was discharged yesterday afternoon after his last dose of IV chemo and a platelet transfusion. We got home about 4pm and were both absolutely exhausted. Chuck and Joel weren't home to look after us, but luckily, a lovely neighbour ordered us pizza for dinner.
Eric is still taking his oral chemo, at a substantially increased dose, for another 23 days. He won't be back at school this week because he needs time to rest and its a short week anyhow. We're doing a bit of school work at home this week and our big job is to clean his room - send help!!!
The hospital has a program called Beads of Courage where Eric gets beads for all the difficult things he has to do - pokes, tests, chemo, transfusions, hospital stays, etc. I caught up on his missing beads just our last hospital stay. We strung them this morning and took a picture stretched down the hallway. Its 15-16 feet of beads and actually isn't even complete. When we were in for long stays, Child Life suggested we do a bead a week instead of for each night. Additionally, I didn't get beads for his 28 day cycles of oral chemo, just the IV doses.
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