Ball and Chain...

The past 2 weeks Ryan has been HOSPITAL FREE...

Unfortunately, that does not mean DR/APPT free.

(Since Ryan started his chemo on Monday and his surgery was scheduled for Tues, his oncologist and the neurosurgeon thought it would be best to wait until a later date to place the Ommaya catheter. No surgery for now... YAY!)

For this round of chemo, Ryan was able to go to the Dr's clinic to receive his infusions.

So we spent a few hours every day HERE:

-AND-

Ryan was LUCKY enough to come home with these two bad boys:

(IV pumps for his Chemo)

His new BFF's...they were inseparable:

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So what do you do when you spend 4+ hours at the Dr's office just sitting there?

Text/play games, sleep... and READ READ READ

Here is a sneak peak at some of our reading material:

The recipes were DELISH- not a good thing to read when you are STARVING!

(Ryan is on a high protein/high cal diet. Any recipes to help him gain weight- SEND THEM OUR WAY!)

This reading was a LITTLE over my head:

... so I'm saving it for a later date!

(Right now we are waiting to see if one of Ryan's siblings are a match for the transplant)

Upon leaving each appt, Ryan was given LOTS of these:

So we have a little pharmacy going on at our house:

Here are some of the pills he takes each day before breakfast:

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Then one day, they decided to give Ryan some cherry Kool-Aid via IV

ha ha... JUST KIDDING, its CHEMO!

And here is just one of the many side effects of chemo...

CANKLES

Getting some anti-nausea meds:

However, somewhere between the appts, cankles and everything else,

we see Ryan like this:

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Then after 5 LONG days AND nights, Ryan was finally FREE from his

"BALL and CHAIN"

I think he was debating seeing how far he could chuck that thing...

Instead he just did this:

He was ONE happy guy!

Lets just hope the smiles continue during this next week as his counts drop and the side effects really KICK in!

~Hugs to all~

***GO TEAM RYAN HESS***