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Visitation the First Week at Moffitt

That first week Mathew’s hospital room, which was quite large, took on the typical hospital room appearance with flowers, get well cards taped on the wall, snacks and goodies dropped off by friends and family.
Parents, Grandparents, Aunts, cousins, school friends, a Priest and even several of Mathew’s College Professors made the 40-mile trip to wish him well. A co-worker of Arpie’s, came all the way from Orlando with "get well wishes" from the Firestone's Orlando District Office. Mathew has twin cousins, Jason and Stephanie. 5 years and 5 days older than Mathew and Joseph. Jason made a trip over to see Mathew that first week. Later Mathew said to me. “Mom, it surprises me that my cousin Jason has been to see me.” He had been so sick with the build-up of toxins, bile and everything else that was going wrong inside of him, that he hadn’t remembered his cousin’s visit.

 After just a few days we realized that all of the activity was exhausting for Mathew and we started limiting the number of visitors and types of visits.


Here is a get well cardboard from the younger brother of one of Mathew's friends.


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