Much Better - Day 20

Today was a good day.  Ellie's infection on her leg was 10 times better than yesterday and she was back to walking around without much difficulty (or at least back to the slight waddle).  The experience of seeing her loopy on a wee bit of morphine has actually been quite amusing.  We've enjoyed the laughter.  Who needs expensive toys and electronic devices when a dancing blanket and a flying "other bubah" send one into stitches?!  (Please do not try this at home - Ellie is a trained medication taker professional) She is definitely feeling better.  We are seeing this trend that as you get farther away from a Chemo day, her energy returns like a light switch has been turned on.  Her blood counts were about the same today, but of particular note is that her body is beginning to make healthy white blood cells in significant amounts.  The chemo this Wednesday will knock them out, but the potential is there and that's a very good sign.

Timmy, who now is into anything and everything he can get his busy little hands on, enjoys now picking up the phone and talking to mommy whenever possible.  He practices as much as he can, especially when dad has his back turned and he can quickly swipe the phone to yell a quick "HALLOOOOW".  All this before realizing I am watching him to which he immediately sends me a sneaky grin and then turning to sprint away.  He wakes up every morning peering over into Ellie's crib to see if she is back.  He keeps saying "Ellie Home" and I have to give a small explanation in 2 yr old speak.  However, he then gets very excited to hear that he is going to visit later later in the day.  Once at the hospital, he typically greets her with a kiss on the cheek and then proceeds to gather all of the toys she has in the hospital room for himself.

If there is one thing we have been absolutely blessed with in abundance these last two weeks - it is good food.  Thankyou very much to everyone who has so generously brought dinner.  I have four days left of summer school to teach and then will have a good 4 weeks off to help ease our daily schedule a bit and definitely make this hospital stay go a little quicker.

Hooray for good days....makes watching the chemo drug battle with cancer from the sidelines a lot more tolerable.