They woke Jude up again after treatment #15 today, which was a big bummer since he could have used some more sleep. I had to carry him out of there since he was still too tired to walk. I noticed when I picked him up from the bed that he left a small pile of hair behind. Then he was snuggling his head into mine and soon I had a mouth full of his hair. We suspected this would be coming. Thankfully, the hair loss and thinning is in the back of his head so Jude won’t even notice it. He’s oblivious to his large scar (and missing hair) from the prior 2 surgeries, which is the way I want it for now. Supposedly Jude’s hair will grow back. The radiation oncologist here said that his Ph. D. team came to him with the radiation treatment plan before Jude started treatment and he wouldn’t sign off on it because 2 of the 3 proton beams were overlapping in their entry points, which would have caused large amounts of permanent hair loss. He gave them another 4 hours of work to re-do the treatment plan in a way that would not cause the beams to overlap (but still be equally effective at radiating the tumor bed area and avoiding critical brain areas). He told the team that Jude was going to be cured and that he wanted him to be a “handsome dude.” That gave the Ph.Ds something fun to think about when they had to go back to the drawing board. That would be perfect — a cured Jude who is a handsome dude.