Wednesday, Graham slept until 1pm, then we went in for a quickie visit to Stanford to get a Neulasta shot to rev up his white blood cells, to prevent them from crashing and making Graham more susceptible to infection. After that, back at home, he enjoyed talking to visitors and callers, and then crashed around 5 and is still sleeping as I write.
He's going to be a happy boy when he wakes up to find all kinds of goodies from friends and neighbors. His buddies from Biogen Idec in North Carolina, where he worked 7 years ago, sent him a glorious fruit basket. Our neighbor Lisa H made him some utterly fantastic chicken fried rice for dinner and pasta for tomorrow's lunch. And Jerry and Joyce B from our chavurah made him a gigantic bowl of delicious buttery creamy mashed potatoes. Mmmm.
These are all the perfect combination of slippery and high calorie foods that he needs right now. He still doesn't have much of an appetite, so if he's only going to eat a little bit, he needs to pack the calories in. And his throat and salivary glands still aren't totally recovered from the radiation, so the food still needs to be somewhat slippery.
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