Photos of Visit

Gabey's still got a cough, pray that it gets better. He's fine, and acting great. He woke up this morning, and I noticed a real difference in his weight. I can tell he's getting back to normal. His face is slimmer, and his belly's slimmer too.

I brought my camera on Thursday, and got to take some pictures. We weren't expecting to have to stay. I took pictures of the good parts of our visit. Some nice things happened. One fun thing is that the nurse who put his "clippy" in rewarded him for being so good by doing a handstand! The OR nurse put Sunny Bunny in an OR outfit for Gabey to pass the time. I got a pic of that. When we got admitted to the hospital room, there was a present waiting on the bed for Gabey. It was a really cool tool set. The family room is finished this time, so when Chrissy was up with us, Jeff and I got to go in there for a little bit to eat dinner. (I forgot my sandwich in the fridge there, oops sorry.) In the morning, I was able to sneak in there again before the guys woke up, and had a cup of coffee in there. The showers are open, so that's awesome. If we would have had to stay, I would have taken a shower, but we were leaving that morning, PTL.

This is the OR playroom. We like the magnet tables.




in our OR prep room waiting and watching TV


pretty tired, waiting


putting Sunny Bunny in a fun outfit to pass the time




Jeffie in his gown. he goes in with Gabey until he's asleep


here we are getting ready to leave in the morning, PTL.


cool blinds in his room


here is the famous fish tank on the way off the floor :) Gabey loves these fish.

Night at the Hospital

Yesterday was our regular appointment for Gabey's LP procedure, and VCR chemo, but when he woke up from the LP, his breathing was pretty croupy for some reason. They decided to admit him overnight to try to get his breathing back to normal. They had some oxygen blowing on him for some time, and they gave him a few doses of medicine from a nebulizer. The first med they gave pushes heart rate up a lot, so they decided to keep an EKG on him, and then after that they gave him a med that didn't do that so badly, and by evening his heart rate was better. By nighttime he didn't need extra oxygen, and I think that 12:30am was the last nebulizer med he got. They also gave him some more decadron, the steroid, so it would help open his airway.
So, it was a long night, but by morning he was sounding better, and they were able to release us by 11am.
I did bring my camera this time, not expecting it to be such a rough time. I ended up taking some pictures anyway. I'll upload them soon.

Gabey's counts drove back down, and he's neutropenic again at around 800. I'm just going to have to not let up on being careful, even when his counts are up.

This week, we went to church, and the store, and the restaurants, thinking he was just fine to handle all of it. It turned out that probably during a lot of those outings, he was neutropenic, and we didn't know it. I really had no clue that his counts would go down that far that quickly. But PTL, he's fine now, a little congested, but sounding just fine, and acting like his cute, silly self.

After we were discharged, and headed out the door, Gabey practically started running down the hall, he was so excited. He started gushing about the fish, and was just so cute all the way to the exit.

We're very happy to be home.