To our great relief, Cris finished radiation this afternoon. Asking Cris to stand completely still for 16 minutes is like asking a river to stop flowing-- not going to happen--ever. He squished, squirmed, wiggled, danced, sang and did pretty much everything except to stand still during treatment. While we were waiting for patient escort to bring us back to the room, an older man walked by wearing a hospital gown, and nothing else. I don't know if he was aware of the show he was putting on...
Being here hasn't been as difficult as I had imagined. Yesterday, Cris played walkie-talkie BINGO. He had a ball playing with the walkie talkie, I'm just not sure how much fun the announcer had. Oh well.
A few minutes ago the candy cart left the room. They loaded him up with about 4 lbs of sugar and chocolate. It's the only food he's eaten in 2 days. He wouldn't drink the milkshake I ordered for him for breakfast, but he has no problem inhaling fruit snacks and sour patch kids. He asked if he could have a bag of Skittles for me and I think he just ate those, too. My kid just ate candy for dinner and I'm happy because he ate something and (hopefully) won't lose too much weight today.
Tomorrow we get to sleep in because chemo doesn't start until 9-10 and he does it in the room. He's used to the chemo so, hopefully it won't be too bad.
~Adina
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