Buh-bye, Big I!

Caden finished his fifth and final day of Irinotecan!! He is done with his fourth week of chemo! Two more Wednesdays, each with just a simple push through the port, and he is done with chemo before his big surgery. Fantastic!!

With as well as he has been feeling with the extra nausea medicines and the extra fluids each day, it is easy to forget that he is fighting for his very life. He has eaten lunch and dinner each day. During chemo days, is that even possible?!?! He has been joking more, laughing more, talking more, doing everything just more! It has been such an unexpected, dramatic change, it feels almost like a dream. This is my Caden, he can't be sick, right? Besides the missing hair and weakness, you would never know he was as sick as he truly is. It's easy to have hope for better days when this day feels so wonderful. 

Moments after we got on the elevator to go back to the RMH, he somewhat loudly said, "I love you, mom. You usually say it first, so I wanted to surprise you and say it first." Be still, my heart. Oh, how I love that boy!

We have a two day break from the hospital. Wednesday brings another chemo day, with a possibility to go home on Friday. Fingers crossed! I would love to be together as a family while he feels this good. Brennon's birthday on the 29th will be even that much greater!