Mason
I'd been turning the idea over for two days before I actually pitched it to Caleb, half expecting him to shoot it down on medical grounds the way he did with most of my bigger ideas. Instead, he just studied me for a long moment across the kitchen island and said, "Actually, that could be good for him. Psychologically, giving him something to look forward to on treatment days instead of just dreading them."
So we built it. An entire corner of the hospital room, once Micah's next admission came around, transformed into what I'd started calling Training Camp, complete with a laminated schedule I'd made myself, ridiculous fake championship belts I'd ordered online, and a whiteboard tracking his "wins" for the week, which mostly consisted of things like finishing his fluids or making i
