Hulk Smash!

Keith officially kissed chemo goodbye today as the final push went in at 11:23 A.M.  It feels strange to think that soon we won't be living at the oncology clinic and riding the wave of ever-changing blood counts. It has literally consumed our lives for almost 15 months now. We've never been so relieved and so grateful to put a chapter of our lives behind us.

Unfortunately, we haven't put hospital admits behind us just yet. Keith received both red blood cell and platelet transfusions today and had a rough go. He vomited consistently throughout the day and developed a 103 temperature. Considering his extreme neutropenia right now (he literally has zero ANC), the fever earned him a one way ticket from Day Treatment to "The Floor".  So, here we sit and wait out his fever or wait for his immune system to recover. When one of those two things happen, we get to go home.

If Keith has anything to do with it, I expect he will take matters into his own hands and "Hulk Smash" his way home soon--and hopefully avoid a night here again for a very, very long time.

Congratulations to our bravest Superhero! You did it!!!

Technically, we won't really be celebrating until we get Keith home, his counts are recovered and he's feeling better. But we can't help but feel the excitement of Keith taking his final dose of chemo. At the beginning, we really did wonder if Keith would ever make it to this point. What a blessing to be standing at this end of his brain tumor diagnosis. We hope life for Keith only gets better from here. That is something worth celebrating!