3:30 AM: Perfect for Sleeping, Cycling, and Sacha Baron Cohen

Harry's day began just as any normal fifteen-year old boy's might: with a 3:30 AM viewing of "Borat."   

Ken, who was on overnight duty, has long been known as more lenient to the kids with regard to bedtime, but this was a little over the top. Sacha Baron Cohen is Harry's favorite actor so watching the movie brought great joy to room 423 at Children's National.  Ken thought the viewing was, as "Borat" says and Harry often repeats, "a pain in my chrem."

After the late night (or early morning) movie, Harry decided to go for a spin on Wahoo kickr, achieving speeds over 25 mph.  But after a good forty minute ride, Harry had to take a break, rehydrate and recuperate from the headache he just gave himself.  

The recuperation included a late nap that went until nearly 11 am, when Harry awoke to three visitors: Alfred Moses, and two of Alfred's colleagues from Promontory whom Harry interned with in 2013.  (Erica Bovenzi, Promontory's Chef Administrative Officer, admitted that they adored eighth grade Harry when he came to Promontory dressed in a double-breasted suit daily, with the Wall Street Journal tucked underneath his arm.) 

Though Harry is clearly showing a pre-disposition to guests of the fairer sex these days, he is shirtless because wearing a shirt can be painful with the IV port protruding from his chest.

Peter, Jacob and Etan Basser came by to chat.  While Jacob and Etan joined Harry to watch the absolutely hysterical and completely inappropriate "Superbad," which Pop Pop, who is still in town, also enjoyed. Peter, who is at NIH, and Ken chatted re the treatment regime.  

Sam Rabinowitz stopped by and played a more sedate game of Scrabble with Harry, who is the reigning family champion.  Hopefully he wasn't as competitive with Sam as he is to us.

Harry may be partial to women, but even that doesn't explain the next photo: 

Here, Harry is getting a simultaneous triple injection of chemotherapy called Erwinia (sounds like a hypothetical middle-class London suburb in a David Lodge novel) administered by Katelin and the two Lindseys (Lindsey K and Lindsey O).  No complaints from Harry on this one, and thankfully, no reaction - a real contrast to the Pegasparaginase which gave him a horrible allergic reaction the other day. 

Other visitors today included Uncle Jeffrey and our friend Tova Jaffe, who shared her experiences being a cancer patient at age 16 with Harry.

On the prayer front, the Catholics have greatly surpassed the combined Protestant denominations and are settling into second place behind the Jews:  our neighbors, the Ferrells, arranged for a mass to be said for Harry at Georgetown, and our old friends, the Devines, have asked Jay's uncle, Monsignor Malone, "to storm the heavens" on Harry's behalf.  

Special thanks to Mindy Sosland for taking Raina shopping in advance of Raina's departure for her State Department fellowship in Tajikistan that starts later this week, and to Adina Kanefield for driving Eden to Children's from JPDS.