We are going home tomorrow!!!

As I write this, I am supposed to be packing and cleaning our room, but I can't focus - I am too excited about going home, and I just had to tell you all!
When one checks out of Ronald Mc Donald House, the room must be cleaned from top to bottom, all the sheets and duvet covers must be washed and put back on the beds and the room must be completely ready for the next people to stay there. It is a lot of work and generally takes about 3 hrs. I plan to be completely packed tonight because I need to give some of our stuff to another person from Smithers who is driving home. She offered to take whatever wouldn't fit. We should be ok, though, since my parents drove home and took a whack of stuff, Tom had room, so he took some, too and now Michelle can bring MORE stuff for us... there'll be no need to pay a $75 overweight fee this time! It is really crazy how much stuff we accumulated over a month. Again. I have some food I will donate to the house too. I bought groceries, thinking we would eat more than we did. There were too many family dinners; we didn't get to all of our food, which is not a bad thing - the dinners were wayyy better than anything I would have made!

I received a phone call this evening from a lady I know who had Cancer a few years ago; she was calling to let me know from her experience that there is absolutely nothing I can do to make Noah want to eat. He just doesn't want to, and he really can't. He just can't. I know this, but I guess I am just worried about him, and kids with feeding tubes just look so pathetic!!!



This is just a random picture I found when I searched Google images. Cute, but pathetic, no?

I don't want him to end up with one but I suppose it wouldn't be the end of the world...
Although, they are easy to throw up and the way this kid keeps vomiting, it wouldn't stay down long. He felt very ill and threw up twice this morning and the whole time, I was praying, " No Lord, I want to go home, not back in the hospital... please help him to stop..." And stop he did, thankfully. I don't know about this chemo not causing nausea.... I think in Noah, it does. Really, why not? He doesn't react normally to almost all of the stuff he takes, so why not this, too, lol? Seriously, I asked the Dr. if I should have to give him Ondansetron for nausea with the Erwinia injections and she said "no, it shouldn't cause nausea - although for Noah... hmmm..." She actually said that! We have to go to clinic tomorrow for the last set of injections this round and for vinCristine and possibly a blood transfusion so I will ask her about all of this.....

I was going to try to post some photos of the relay for life in Smithers on the weekend, but I am having trouble getting the pictures from facebook to here, and I don't have time to fiddle too much right now. I will try tomorrow when I am sitting around at the clinic or in the airport...
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