Small Setback

There's been a small setback. Yesterday Cristina was supposed to start her new chemotherapy, however because of the water they found in her heart they wanted to delay it until that was drained. We expected this to happen last night, however they delayed it until this morning because they wanted to wait for a more experienced doctor to go on duty to perform the operation. While waiting they moved Cristina to a smaller room, one floor down, in a more secure area where only one visitor is permitted to a room at a time in order to lower the risk of potentially spreading any sort of germs to the other patients. This meant that I had to go home last night and return tomorrow.

This morning we woke up early to drive over and visit her. When we arrived Cristina was already having the operation done which ended with her having most of the water drained from her heart so now she is fit for receiving her new batch of chemo. When we went back to visit her, however, she was in pain and was given some more anesthetics and some oxygen, because she was also having some trouble breathing. After about a half-hour she was getting drowsy and we told her we would go to visit her grandmother, whom we all call Cuca, and have lunch.

Lunch was great as always and as usual Cuca tried pushing enough cookies, and other treats on me to feed an entire family. I decided to gather Cristina's parents together with Cuca for a photo. 

Cristina's mom took one look at the photo and said, "I look awful." Everyone says that when they see themselves in photos.

After leaving we decided that we would head back home for an hour or two while Cristina rests for awhile, and then we'd head back to see if they moved her back to her previous, more spacious room.

Last night Cristina (Cristina's mom. I know, it can get confusing sometimes) asked me if I found it surprising how calm and collected her daughter was when going through all of this, and I said no. She's got a lot of spunk and can breakdown into tears one minute, but the next she'll be calmed down and will actually be relaxing and comforting her mom.

In a short while we'll be heading back to the hospital so I'll most likely post again sometime tomorrow to give an update. In the meantime, this Sunday will be Children's Day so I want everyone to celebrate the children that are in their lives, along with their own inner child.