Hospital Admitting Day

Well I'll have to say it felt a little weird coming back into the hospital. It felt very familiar, yet a little strange after being home for 2 1/2 weeks. We are isolated in our own room since Hunter still has a pretty bad cough. But they've told us that since he's not coughing up blood, it's not that big of a concern. We were wondering if we should postpone starting the chemo because of this, but the doctor stressed the importance of starting AML treatments as soon as their bodies are ready because of the risk of it immediately coming back. He's more mobile this time then when we left. Definitely makes it more difficult when he's hooked up to his IV for other fluids. He's not a fan of only being able to go about two feet. He gets frustrated real quick and doesn't quite get it yet.

Zen did a really wonderful job at scoping out the table situation. He casually talked on his phone outside our room so that he could eye up the inventory. By the end of the night, we had our three rolling tables back. YAY!! He's so sneaky.

The third round started at 5:00 today and so far Hunter is taking it like its no big deal. He was real mellow and a little on the quite side. He'll probably sleep from now until morning.




Last picture before we left our house.


Hunter making his way to the elevators. That's his first time actually walking into the hospital on his own!


After we checked in, the first step is an Echocardiogram to make sure there isn't any damage to his heart from the previous chemo treatments that we need to be aware of.


Didn't seem to mind so much this time. Last Echo he wasn't so still.


Here is the nurse injecting benadryl into his IV. He is pre-medicated for his chemo treatments to reduce any possible reaction or side effects.


Once he's hit with the benadryl, he's usually a little sleepy. He'll be in la la land soon.