We are on home leave for a while.
Just how long for, we don't know.
Brett came out of hospital Friday for a night release and was properly discharged on Saturday.
He is out tonight with friends.
He is weak, bald and probably still neutropenic but who can say no?
I mean, what is in this teenagers life?
The risk of death, well yeah, dur
The risk of pain - permanent,
Loving the Morphine xx
The risk of embarrassment - constantly.
How many teenagers do you know that have had to show their bums to doctors?
Most teenagers wont even leave the house on a bad hair day.
My son has been through so much, he feels he has lost all dignity.
Just last week his mucositis had travelled from his mouth all the way through his body - and I mean all the way through!!!
Doctors came from far and wide to have a look at his regions - oh the shame he went through, but if they can stop the bleeding, then good for them.
(Mucositis is the painful inflammation and ulceration of the mucous membranes lining the mouth to the digestive tract)
Ouch - I whinge when I have one mouth ulcer - at least I still have a mouth, unlike him, his whole mouth is one big ulcer.
So, as the bad cancer mum I am, I have let him go out for dinner with friends.
Oh the shame!....Actually I really couldn't give a ...
You live it, then you can comment on it,
until then...just keep taking the morphine.xx
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