Friday, May 17th...again

As you can see in Raphael's post below, Florian has been especially obsessed with sandwiches lately. Some text messages I received around 11pm two nights ago:

"I'm craving meat so badly! Ah! It's killing me. I've never craved something so badly."

"I can't just eat meat at 23:30...that's absurd. I can wait til tomorrow."

20 minutes later:

"I want STEAK! Ahhhh!!"

Followed by:

"I'm looking up pictures of philly cheesesteaks online. Literally. It is killing me.  I think I'll ask mom to get me, like, quick sandwiches you can heat in the microwave tomorrow morning.  Like a philly cheesesteak sandwich. That you can just reheat really quickly. That would literally make my damn day.  That and a meatball sub. Ugh. I'm so excited for tomorrow."

Not two minutes after:

"Would you get me a meatball sub from Aniello's tomorrow, babe? Those are literally my favorite :) "

I'm pretty sure the smiley face was just to butter me up, but how can you say no to this face?!:


"Yo, I look perfect in that helmet, babe. Why didn't you tell me before?" -Florian, upon seeing this photo

Which brings me to my next point...The helmet has been decorated. Mrs. Gollier, on her way to buy Bioshock Infinite or whatever it's called for Florian to play, picked up some fancy stickers.  The back reads "Back Off" and the front says "Don't Tread On Me." Looking extra manly, I might add. No one will want to mess with a kid in this helmet. Especially as he carries his Robert Baratheon's warhammer around the cancer center.

He is feeling relatively weak and tired today from his chemo last night around 9, but has been keeping occupied with his new video game and incessantly harping on me to finish two essays, which leads me to believe he is feeling like his regular self...

Today we were visited by Mr. Kuksenkov (Vasily's dad) who came to say hi and see how things were going, along with a patient care advocate who asked if I was Florian's mom?!? I know Mrs. Gollier is a fountain of youth, but I am two months younger than he is, and also his girlfriend, so we had quite a laugh about that one.

Tomorrow brings another day of video games, hospital food, Arrested Development, incredibly kind nurses, and naps. Feel free to visit, but if you do, for the love of God, BRING A MEATBALL SUB!