John's progress: Sitting

More baby steps today. Up 3 times standing, spent a couple of hours out of bed in a chair, ate solids and of course had a cookie dough blizzard.

It seems like every hour he's getting stronger. They said if a room were available they would have us up a few floors for therapy.

On the outside of the room they have these signs warning about the patient having had Chimo. Because of this they use special gloves when they work with him. I asked "why do you wear the special gloves"? The nurse said "it's to protect ourselves from catching anything, because of the chemo". I asked, "Why, would that be bad?". She thought for a moment and replied "yea, and and it's for our safety and hers" pointing to other nurse whose pregnant. I then followed up with "Well what about me or Caren? She's been living wih him and I've been in the room all day". She paused, then blamed protocol. I couldn't help but chuckle.