Half Way.

Donnie has officially made it half way, he starts day 7 tomorrow! He finished his last bag of chemo late last night. Donnie had four different kinds of chemo over the last 5 days. His first bag was Rituxan on Thursday for about four hours. Once that was done, he received his first of four 24 hour bags, one every day for four days. Once every 24 hour bag was done they gave him another bag of chemo, which lasted about a hour, then another 24 hour bag. After the last of all those bags, he had one last bag, that lasted about two hours. He finished that one at about 4:30 this morning. Donnie is just on a IV bag for hydration right now until he is discharged. He has one more Intrathecal Prophylactic Treatment on Thursday and then he's done with chemo for this stay. The doctor complimented him on how well he has been doing. He said if he was a older man he would probably be bed ridden, but Donnie for the most part has been doing pretty well. He's still able to get up and keep food down. He has been feeling pretty tired lately and just run down and his face still hurts him but that's to be expected with this whole process! I admire that he keeps such a calmness about him amongst all this uncertainty. He will still smile his sweet smile, no matter how bad he feels. He's quite the fighter!

He has had many visitors lately, yesterday was especially busy! One batch of visitors were some of his bosses from work who paid him a visit with a DVD player and DVDs in tow, which was really great for Donnie because it gets pretty boring in that room. It was a nice surprise for him and the nurses too, they certainly didn't mind all those boys in uniform hanging around ;) Also, I brought the kids to see him today. I really wasn't suppose to but his white count has been really good and in a few days it's not going to be. The nurse also said that it would be fine today, so I did. They just miss him so much and he misses them like crazy too. We skype with him every night and almost every morning but it's just not the same. Mia was just so excited to see him, she didn't want to leave his side she just laid on him and cuddled. Brody on the other had was happy to see him, but I think he was more interested in the bed buttons :) They were both so glad to see their daddy. It will be a whole week before they will get to again so I'm happy they were able to get a little visit in. I don't know how military families do it. We were fortunate enough that Donnie never was deployed, but honestly I can't imagine. It's so hard to be away from him now and I still get to see him every day. I just miss having a partner. When you get married, you have this forever partner. Someone that you share everything with. Someone that shares all your highs and lows. Someone to go to bed with at night, and man is our bed lonely without him in it. I just really miss that companionship and I know the kids miss their daddy. I'm just trying to get through this last week and not think about having to do this every 21 days, ugghh one day at a time!

Just a couple pictures of him with the kids :)