Special Visitor to Room 27!

Sunday December 13

After a difficult morning rounds (yeah, more like a full-blown confrontation) with the oncologist covering in-patient that week, I think the charge nurse felt badly for me and offered to seek an exemption to the "no children under 18" rule instated at the hospital. Nurse Beth pulled through and got Nicholas through the doors for us!

He was SO excited to visit the hospital to see his brother for the first time in well over a week. He told me he saw the "dancing baby William" on the hospital (the lit-up logo sign) and knew "William was awake." When Nicholas got off the elevator with us, he seemed apprehensive and peeked out from around the corner. He followed to the main entrance of the HEMOG floor and almost instinctively knew which way to turn to get to William's room (seriously, it was rather eerie).

Nicholas went right over to William and greeted him with a big kiss and a "hi broder William!" William just lit up seeing his old pall.

Truthfully, I was holding back the tears - oh, melt my heart!!!

After his initial greeting, Nicholas was onto his next mission - to examine every electronic gizmo device in the joint. He spotted the fancy remote control first. As lousy as this shot is, I love it because you see William watching Nicholas' every move, just as he always does. Nicholas even found the electronics to operate the hospital bed that none of us never noticed in over a week. You can imagine his interest in the IV pump, the air and suction nozzles coming out of the wall and anything else of oddity.

Nicholas was impressed with brother's set-up, especially when he got a little container of milk and a straw!

All of us together again...(as exhausted as we all look!)

Together never felt so good.