Tucker’s award…

Every time before they do chemo they have to get blood out of Tucker’s tubes first just to make sure everything is working- well they just came to pull blood for a CBC and sure enough Tucker’s tubes were not pulling back any blood. This has been a continual problem with his tubes ever since we got them. Its not a big deal, its just a pain in all our rear-end. So the nurse tried for 30 minutes- she had Tucker roll over, stand up, sit down, lift arms up, cough, pat his head & rub his stomach, LOL- nothing worked. So she left the room and 5 minutes our Irish bear walked in the room with a big booming TUCKER MAN YOUR NOT BLEEDING! Of course with a huge smile on his face. He came and gave me a big hug and we chit chatted for a while- he wanted to get caught up on his Tucker. All the while trying to get blood out of Tuckers stubborn tubes- well about 15 minutes of Irish trying and trying- he got this serious look on his face and said “Tucker, I need to lay the bed all the way flat and have you flat on your back.” I thought to myself, ya that could work it’s the only position we haven’t tried yet. So Irish got the bed all the way to flat and we lifted up Tucker shirt- then Irish took a 10cc full tube of saline (so that’s just water) and he said “Tucker hold very still….” And he took that saline and held it over Tucker’s belly button and started to FILL UP TUCKER’S BELLY BUTTON WITH SALINE! LOL Tucker started laughing and Irish said “Dude! Don’t laugh! This will mess up my process!!” But Tucker was a laughing and I was laughing (remember Tucker’s belly is huge from the steroids) and Irish got it full to the tippy top and he emptied the saline that was left into the sink- then he took the empty saline tube and sucked up the saline that was in Tucker’s belly button and Irish exclaimed “WOW! 2.5cc’s! Your belly button held 2.5cc’s!! That takes 2nd place!! Congratulations!!!! I had a kid that once held a little over 3cc’s in his belly button so he’s #1, but you took the #2 spot!!!” We were all laughing and laughing and laughing!! So Irish left and came back 5 minutes later and he went and printed Tucker a sign, that he hung proudly on our door- that said Tucker now hold the #2 position for most saline held in a belly button.
Oh Irish, how we love you.
Here is a picture of Tucker’s greatest award….
Love amber & Tucker.