Halloween

Everyone got a kick out of our Halloween costumes today, especially Jason’s - he was a “prisoner” of MD Anderson. His black and white striped hat said “property of MD Anderson” and the back of his hat had his medical record number. And he had this giant chain that “chained him to the end of the bed . He had this new doctor all week who was always very serious, never smiled, and never said much of anything, and they wanted to see his face when he saw them. Well, he came in early (because they all want to get out of there on time on Fridays) and they weren’t ready – they quickly put on the costumes and they said he actually did laugh.

His nurse told everyone at the nurses’ station, “my patient dressed up and wait until you see him walk around!” She didn’t know there was no way Jason would have come out of him room in his costume – anyways, they got impatient waiting for him to come out and all of a sudden about 4 of them popped their heads in to see him.

Since this was the last day of chemo he was still pretty tired and slept most of the day, but he should perk up over the weekend. He also had a problem with itchiness and dry skin this time around. It looks like he doesn’t have as much fluid to get rid of this time around - the dopamine really helped in that department. He has done so much better this round that we’re hoping he’ll be able to get out of the hospital by Monday morning – 8 days instead of 11 days!

We did get to watch Nosferatu, a silent Dracula film from 1922 - interesting. (Brian, I stand corrected – I should have said the SNL’s from 30 years ago were fun to watch. But ‘interesting’ is the correct term for this one.) And I know they’re going to watch some scary Halloween movie tonight- they come alive when I’m ready for bed!

Marjorie