Going HOME!

Maggie comes to visit for a pizza party at the doctor's house. We partied so late we had to do bath time here too -- she LOVED it!

Pizza party at the doctor's house! We had pizza's delivered so dad and Mag's could come party with us. Tommy even got a b-day balloon from the record room's clerk.
Here we are this morning with our ICE CREAM, pancakes, yogurt and chocolate milk -- yummy! He's proudly showing you HIS Dr. badge. When mom got her Red Cross badge and looked like the rest of the Dr's & Nurse's -- he was VERy upset that HE didn't have one. We quickly fixed that!

Hip hip hurray! For today is the day we get to go HOME! Tommy's hematology came to visit about 8 AM and said Tommy's doing pretty good and all his counts continue to go in the right direction, so he's going to let us out early (this afternoon) and we'll come back on Monday for another blood check. Tommy's still not "great" so we'll be going home with his G-CSF shots that Daryl or I give him daily (granulocyte-colony stimulating factor) a growth factor that stimulates the bone marrow to make more white blood cells. We'll also be keeping him on the steroids that he started yesterday.

The steroids are almost an instant effect -- which is good considering how tiny my once Chunky Monkey has shriveled down to. Gee (Kim's mom) told him last night he can have whatever he wants at the DR's house all he has to do is call the nurse's and tell them, and includes ice cream. Well, that was giving the kid the "GOLDEN TICKET" like from Willie Wonka! At 10 PM he wanted to buz the nurse for ice cream -- great! Lucky for me (I say "me" because I would have been the one who would have had to go out in the middle of the night driving around for ice cream other wise), they have little ice cream cups in the freezer here on the floor.

Can you guess what he wanted for breakfast this morning?!!! Oh Gee, this child wanted MORE ice cream! So we got ice cream, pancakes, yogurt and chocolate milk. On a diet like this, I don't think we'll have to worry if the steroids will help pack on the pounds.

In the end, we won't be here as a in-patient for his birthday THANK GOODNESS! We'll still have to come down for a finger prick -- guess that's okay. Hopefully by then we can pull off of the G-CSF shots -- there won't be any disagreement from Tommy we know that!