Woke up to 35°F outside on a frosty autumn morning. Our house is so quiet and empty without Kiyomi and Toshirō to share it with us.
Both our hearts are heavy this morning. Yesterday was such a long (literally, 1 AM to 11 PM) and terrible (so much news) day. Victoria and I are slowly trying to absorb and digest everything from yesterday, and to narrow our focus to live only in the moment.
We cannot thank YOU, our family and friends, enough for your love, prayers, kindness, and support. This has been such an ordeal, our hearts are heavy, and sometimes we feel overwhelmed both in our tests of faith and our tests of endurance that we sorely need and are comforted by your presence.
Did you go home last night? Hoping for the best man.
Yes, thankfully. There was nothing more that Hopkins could do.
They offered to keep me overnight for more blood draws, monitoring, and observation, but there was nothing more than I could other than have me occupy a bed, stick me repeatedly, and tell us what we already knew.
Unless I’m actively undergoing IV medications, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, blood transfusions, or something that requires hospitalization, I’d rather be at home. After a very long, we got home around 11 PM last night. Hard to believe that the day began at 1:20 AM at Kaiser-Tysons and ended at 9:40 PM in Hopkins-Baltimore. Aside from the CT and biopsy results describing the extent of my cancer, there was nothing really new or helpful about yesterday.