As much as we enjoy the folks at the hospital, 10 nights is certainly enough time to spend with them! Sawyer's blood concentration level of the chemo drug has dropped below the required threshold, meaning he can be discharged today.
Our third roommate moved in last night shortly after we had a visit from some good friends. We were delighted to see that he and his dad are folks that had been in touch with us before. The 17-year-old boy has kidney cancer and is also a boy scout in our area. His dad had heard about Sawyer through the boy scout network and had called us a few times to touch base and talk about having a son with cancer. They are a really wonderful family and very easy to engage in conversation. Normally the boy would not have needed hospitalization for his treatment like Sawyer but just had his kidney removed along with the large tumor attached to it. His treatment includes radiation as well as chemotherapy.
(I realize I skipped mention of our second roommate - also a 16-year-old boy who was in to have his appendix removed. He was here a couple of days and again we were lucky that he and his family were very compatible room companions.)
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