We had just 4 full days between the last hospital stay and this one. May has been a month of much hospital time.

4 days home was not a lot, but maybe we made the most of the time?


Sunday: Phil & Pamela visited us bearing all sorts of goodies and healing, K,K, & J brought burgers to grill plus Ginny's favorite summer salad, ginger cookies and ice cream for dessert
Monday: Ginny and I watched the local parade, then Ginny got ice cream with her friend, finished watching our show
Tuesday: a walk in Great Falls, pedicures, deli subs, s'mores night with siblings
Wednesday: lots of rest, more TLC from Pamela, Mac-n-Cheese for dinner and a coloring game, baked cookies for a friend and for hospital nurses

Yesterday, we returned to Children's National to see if Ginny's platelet count was high enough for her to commence round 7 of her chemo treatments. When she was released on Saturday afternoon, she had struggled for days to get that number up to a paltry 26 (This is far below the threshold for chemo). Bloodwork yesterday showed her platelets at 180! The doctor was impressed/surprised.
I wondered if our food-centric & happy 4 days had been more helpful than we'd even imagined...

Anyway, here we are: fluids flowing; best patient room in the hospital (a corner room with a view of the capital building, the Washington Monument, and the reservoir); chemo on deck.

Ready.