I never had the good fortune to live in a college dorm room, but I imagine it would have a smell similar to the one growing in our tiny hospital room. Thankfully, I had some heavy-garlic meals early in our stay which I believe have infused a healing property in the air contributing to Chelsa's good health. While her blood counts are still very low, we are to the point where they are beginning to bounce back. It will be a really slow process, probably 3-4 months to get back to normal, but so far so good. She currently has "Rhino-virus" (a cold), so was confined to our stinky room & banned from walking the halls for a while, which broke her spirit. Her sweet doctor (the king of the hospital) made a few calls after talking to her this morning and just had that lifted...so lots of celebratory hall walks today!
It seems there have been lots of deaths on the 12th floor this week. The visitor lounge conversations had and overheard with folks losing moms, dads, and wives has been pretty heavy. One small bright spot has been all of our great friends helping to rebuild the visitor lounge DVD library. It was looking pretty sparse, but we've had around 40 movies donated so far so at least there will be some good stories available to escape into for a short while.
Hoping that we will be able to return home by the beginning of November, but it all depends on Chelsa's immune system bouncing back, so prayers for that to happen and to keep her safe and protected until it does please.
In the meantime, thanks for all of the support and encouragement! Here's a few photos of what you've been missing out on...
~M & C
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| Our tiny dorm room--Chelsa's bed. |
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| Matt's bed. |
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| Our fancy TV and food stash. |
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| Our awesome room art! *It's "Woshientn" (sound it out). *That's also a self-portrait by Dr. Kaplan, our awesome oncologist. |
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| 12th floor movie library before. |
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| 12th floor movie library after! (this isn't even all of them!) |
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