DAY +8

Another day of improvement! Sitting up, showering, a few giggles here and there, a few comments to give the nurses a hard time. Things are lookin' up.
Mouth and throat seem to be even better today. He's really weak but trying his best to work through it. His platelets were down today so he had to have a transfusion. That went without incident.
Doctors are all encouraging him and telling him how well he's doing. He's on track and hopefully day +10 will show first signs of increasing white cells. So we are holding on for a few more days. He's been discouraged with those words...a few more days. He says everyone keeps saying that and a few more days haven't shown anything new. Well he's forgetting that a few days ago he wasn't doing anything except sleeping, and a few days before that he was vomiting all the time. So I'm going to believe it when they say a few more days, things will be better because I'm witnessing the improvement from a different side. Not from the patient side, or the doctor side but the wife side. The side that hurts when he hurts and will try anything to comfort him. The side that wishes I could just take all of this away from him somehow. The side that will stand by him through better or worse through sickness and in health...
We will find the strength to take each day as it comes because we have so much support, we have the miracle of medicine, and we have the power and grace of prayer. So give me a few more days and we'll see what happens!!!

peace, love and happiness until tomorrow