Celebrating "Lasts"

We're all used to celebrating "Firsts" in people's lives: first steps, first accomplishments, etc. But this week we're celebrating "Lasts." Today was Mom's last Day 1 of IL-2 Cycles. And as the week continues, the Lasts will pile up until we can celebrate leaving them all behind.

As it turns out, she isn't the only patient on the floor celebrating Lasts this week. There's a man who is also on Cycle 6 of IL-2 and another fellow on the last cycle (19??) of some other therapy. To celebrate their accomplishment of reaching this point, one of the nurses made a delicious chocolate cake with berry filling and ganache frosting and Mom and her fellow survivors all were able to enjoy a piece for lunch before they started their Monday treatment and began to feel lousy. What a lovely gesture from a thoughtful nurse.

Other than that a normal Monday. Mom's request for an even-numbered room came through again so she was able to keep the same floor plan and avoid disorientation. Her three o'clock dose went fine but she had some chills and started to feel kinda lousy. Pretty much par for the course.

I'm going to assume that she's getting her 11 pm dose right now and she'll be 2/2 of 14 as of this writing.