Round 2

We’re back in the Hospital after having a wonderful week at home. After being in the Hospital for almost two months, we can truly say “there is no place like home”. Van has been getting stronger and stronger every day—so much so, that he was finally able to get back to Presidency Meeting on Sunday morning. He was so excited to finally be with the Brethren again.  Also, this last Friday, since Van can’t go out to public restaurants, Members of the ward provided a romantic dinner date at one of their homes, with bowling and a movie (the bowling was on the Wii and the movie was in their home theatre.)  They sanitized everything in the house and then took their whole family to Salt Lake—leaving the entire house to us. That was so creative and thoughtful. We have just been overwhelmed by the love shown and service rendered by members of this Church (The Gospel in action). Thank you all so much.

We arrived at the hospital at 9:00 this morning after all the lab work and blood tests they admitted us.  We are in room 810 in the East wing.  We are here for the second round of Chemo which will probably take a week.  They were going to start today but instead they decided to put in a central line in Van’s chest.  A central line is a catheter placed into an internal jugular vein in the neck which tunnels over the clavicle, underneath the skin and exits out of his chest.  It has three ports and is used to administer medication.  It’s more safe and more accessible than a pic line which he has had for the past 2 ½ months.  All this set us back quite a few hours so instead of starting the Chemo today,  they will start hydrating him at 6:00 am and start chemo at 11:00 tomorrow.  So tonight we are going to eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow  . . .

  Van has a triple port Central Line