Home Again

Anna had a solid week of progress in the hospital. She recovered from her sinus surgery, though does remain a little stuffy. As the week went on, her numbers also started coming back to relatively normal levels. They felt good enough about everything to perform another round of the Lumbar Puncture/Spinal Chemo on Friday afternoon. With this procedure, there was a bit of drama... She wasn't supposed to eat all day, but got hungry and had a single skittle... the anesthesiologist wasn't happy that her stomach wasn't completely empty, so they wanted to postpone the procedure. seems a bit crazy over one single skittle, but they didn't like it at all. she really wanted to get through this, as it meant she could likely go home the following day... so, they decided to do it with just some hard core pain meds that wound up putting her mostly to sleep. She got through it, and  I guess she learned not to have even a single skittle.
 
She was able to come home from the hospital this afternoon. Her hair has been falling out over the past few days, so it was time to shave it. We got most of the heavy stuff off, and tomorrow, we'll go through and make it nice and shiny. Other than that, she's been in bed for most of the day. Although, she is able to sleep at the hospital, it's not really a good long sleep. They wind up in and out of her room every few hours, so she sleeps in small increments. I think she's had a good sleep so far today, but we'll see if she's able to keep going through the night, or if this is going to keep her up all night. Regardless, it's good to have her back home.
 
Assuming all continues on track, she'll be back in the hospital in a little over a week for the start of the next round of the new chemo regimen. It's kind of crazy with all of the back and forth stuff, but it is nice to see her home. I know it gets tougher to leave TJ each time, but I think it really does help everyone to have her home ever few days. We've really been using a lot of skype video lately, so TJ winds up seeing her via the computer almost every day. I've been hooking it up to the big screen TV in the living room lately and he really gets a kick out of it, and it's a good way to communicate with her.