We are HOME!!!

Clay is actually leaving. Thursday April 14, 2011 5:00pm

The nurses and staff all gather and sing Happy Last Chemo to You. He got to ring the I'm outta here bell.

Clay and I. I should have put on make up. Oh well.

We had alot of stuff. This was the final of 3 trips. You collect things over 6 weeks.

We are at grandmas. We were able to leave the hospital today at around 5. Clay is doing phenomenal. His blood counts are moving higher and higher every day. It is nerve racking bringing him home but I have been trained well in the school of nursing and think we will be fine. If not the hospital is a phone call away.

Now we are home I went and picked up his meds from our pharmacy and boy oh boy am I glad we have insurance. He is on 5 meds (12 pills) in the morning and the same in the evening. One medication is 8 pills. This does not count the 4 as needed meds for nausea and the pain med that is as needed also. No wonder he throws up all the time. I would to if they pumped that amount of anything into my system. I'm super proud of Clay for taking all the meds as he needs to. The 8 pills are what is kicking his butt now but he will get better day by day. We have our dr appt on Monday and they will tell us if he goes up or down on that med. He will be on most of those for the 100 days (June 28) but some will taper off as he fells better.

It is nice to be home and sleep in our own beds tonight. Tomorrow we are going to hang out and get acclimated to our new (old) environment.

Thanks to all. We miss you and love each and every one of you. We have a friend we met at the hospital that could use a little help from the big man upstairs. Will you please say a prayer for Tanner tonight. He is having a rough time right now. His cancer counts keep going up not down. He and his family are amazing strong people and will get through this in time. Every little prayer helps and my peeps are the best prayers around.

Love Tab and Clay