8

8 treatments left after today’s noon appointment.  We were all shocked that Jude got in to his noon appointment at noon.  That is a first.  So, he got to eat breakfast/lunch at 2 p.m. today after waking up from anesthesia. My strategy in helping him avoid suffering with hunger/thirst this morning was to keep him up late last night. Jude and I (and some other house guests) went to the observatory on campus for some star gazing. Jude and Andy had raved about how cool it was to see the craters on the moon and the rings of Saturn when they went a couple weeks ago so I was pretty excited. My high expectations lead to big disappointment. The object we were gazing at was rings of nebula, which apparently are gases or something coming off a star while it is dying.  Honestly, it looked like a very small smudge at the end of the telescope.  But, I didn’t want to discourage my potential little astronomer (who had asked the students leading the session why stars die) so I just talked afterwards about how cool that was that we got to see a dying star.  He expressed concern that since the sun is a star that it will die out and then the world would come to an end.  Uh…good point, little buddy.  I don’t remember how I responded to that zinger.  I then fed him a midnight snack and he was so exhausted that he requested that we go to sleep without praying and telling a funny story, but then he added that I could pray if I prayed to myself so that I didn’t disturb him.