We're at it again this week. Brian started chemo yesterday. His appointment wasn't until 1:30 PM, so we did some school work in the morning. (Typically we don't do too much during a chemo week.) While I was working with Ansley and William, Brian and Liv were drawing and coloring. I took a picture of Brian's art work because it made me super sad. He spent the entire morning consumed with thoughts of chemotherapy. The picture on the left is Brian sitting on the hospital bed playing with the iPad. The picture on the right is the pump on a pole. The huge thing coming out of the pole on the right side is the tubing that attaches to Brian. He drew it huge because, in his mind, lots of medicine goes into him.
But you can see, even though he was describing chemo and saying, "I'm scared", he has a huge smile on his face. He's such a sweet boy!
Yesterday was draining. Brian fought a bunch more than typical and he cried and screamed. We ended up having to physically restrain him. Brian has a look of terror and disappointment right after his port is accessed that just crushes us.
Please pray for Brian this week as he receives his chemo treatments. We pray every day that these treatments and this protocol would work.
Praying!
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