It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Bonjour ! (Sofitel is a French hotel)  50 degrees here in Philly on December 16th, I guess IT IS ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA, who would have thought?  We truly have been blessed with this beautiful weather; Brandon, crutches, and snow would have made for an interesting week.

Enough weather talk, let's talk about Brandon.  I last left off with the Home care nurse hooking Brandon's port up to fluid.  The first night back to the hotel after treatment was somewhat iffy. His nausea got the best of him and caused loss of color and extreme fatigue, BUT he slept through the night, which was a huge positive.  He went through most of Thursday having good moments and bad moments, mostly good!  All in all we felt like yesterday was a better day than expected.  He has been eating saltines, bananas, oranges, applesauce, chicken noodle soup, Gatorade, ginger ale, etc., he does not always have an appetite but between Becky and I we are force feeding him.  The more energy the better!  Trust me his sarcasm has not changed one bit.  Pretty much  our day was spent mostly  resting and myself and Becky taking turns slipping out to do some shopping.  Last night we watched the semi finals of the NCAA women's volleyball championship, sad not to see PSU playing but we will be cheering on the ILLINI all the way.  GO BIG TEN!  Again, another decent nights sleep and enter Friday.

We had an appointment with our oncologist, Dr. Staddon, first thing this morning.  Which meant I needed to disconnect Brandon's port from his IV.  Maybe nursing school is my second calling?  (Brandon would beg to differ)  His favorite line this week, "Are you trying to kill me?"  Anyways, 8:45am at the doctor's office, we are starting to feel very welcome at Penn, as we now know the doorman,receptionist, nurses, etc all who are all invested in B's progress.  The doctor's appointment was a success, Dr. Staddon was very pleased with how things were going and gave us the okay to head down to Palm Beach for the holidays!   If you listen really closely, you can hear Brandon and I jumping for joy.  (Well maybe Brandon is not jumping but you get the idea)

Although we are very sad we will not be making the trip home to spend Christmas Eve with the Tortorello's, we are excited to get down to the sun and begin Brandon's recovery process.  We hope to rest, relax, work out and soak up the sun in Palm Beach and of course have a very Merry Christmas!

Next stop Singer Island, Florida.

With Love,
B&S