A full day - revised

OK, the full day didn't go as expected. The revised day:
1 - Blood work at 11:15am.
2 - Steak lunch as expected. Josh refers to these as his "last supper" each time since he has no appetite once he's in the treatment room.
3 - Doctor appointment at 2pm, but sit in the appointment room for 2 hours before the doctor completes a quick look-over and pronounces Josh ready for the next round.
4 - Additional wait at the treatment center since they have to wait for the doctor's staff to give the go-ahead on the prescription of the chemo. Chemo finally starts around 7:15pm.
5 - Josh's brother graciously offers to drive Josh ALL the way home from the hospital after the treatment so that I don't have to get up early in the morning to meet them halfway. Since I was up since 3am that morning, I took him up on the offer. They're not home until 7:30pm the next morning. Josh's brother is so wired that he has a quick breakfast and hops back in the car to drive back to Houston.

Long day.

And now it's the 3rd day after the "healing medicine" and Josh is doing pretty well. He's been in bed much more this time, but his head is clear so he's able to focus on work, movies, reading. He's weaker and dizzier than usual and his stomach is giving him trouble. But this evening, he walked well around the block, ate quite a bit for dinner (corn on the cob is tasting particularly good to him, as is watermelon), and watched the remainder of the Boston/Lakers game even though he doesn't care at all which wins.

Fourth round almost done.