21 down, 12 to go, after today’s treatment. Tomorrow the proton center is closed for a regularly scheduled maintenance day so it was toy day today. Jude picked a $10 Target gift card and then filled the cart with all his favorite options and agonized for quite awhile about what to pick. Ultimately, he choose 2 Ninjago Lego booster packs, at $4.99 each. Given that the proton center is closed tomorrow, that extends our stay here by a day. Luckily it didn’t extend our stay a whole weekend, which would have been really irritating. I’m so thankful that Jude hasn’t missed a single day of treatment due to illness or anything. The boys have been remarkably healthy for a really long time now, which is very unusual.
I keep getting asked by other patients about we are doing tomorrow on our “day off.”  Well, it won’t be a real day off. I’ll be working, as usual, and Andy will be taking care of the boys. I’ve realized how lucky I am to have a job that can be done remotely (unlike some other parents here who are physical therapists, detectives, etc.) and I’ve realized how lucky I am to have an employer that agreed to let me work remotely for 7 weeks. Pretty amazing. It certainly makes this difficult time a lot easier when our entire family can be together. Â