A long stay

It looks increasingly likely that this stay will be Wes’ longest yet – it’s already the longest since the very first stay after diagnosis. He’s feeling well, but his ANC is stubbornly stuck at zero, a result of the 7 months of chemo beating up on his bone marrow, progressively slowing his ability to regenerate the blood cells he needs to bolster his immune system.

He’s not in a crisis, unless boredom can be considered one, so it was much easier to leave him, and Stephanie, this time. He just has to stay put, in the safety of a great hospital, until his body is ready and safe to return to the outside. I may well be home again before he is.