Thursday, August 12, 2010

Some Day in August, (prt ##)

ok, i'm not sure if this is Wednesday part II, or Thursday part I.

but here's "the rest of the story"

in the PT scan from monday, they did find a few small spots on jackie's left lung,
all way too small for biopsy, but dr. chua said that the meds should just shrink them away, since they are so little.
(go dr. chua, a really wonderful dr.!)

it was the first day of chemo, so many things to do, so little time.
(vitals to take, histories to check, all that newbie kind of thing)

before yesterday, i didn't even know there was a "secret chemo handshake"!!!

so it was getting late, and they were looking for a way to squeeze all those bag's of stuff into jackie.

they timed it out, figured they could get all but one...
so we would have to come back tomorrow/today, (see "day confusion statement above")

for that one little bag, it would take about 30 minutes, and as they were thinking, they decided, (actually suggested, leaving the decision up to jackie), that they could let us go right then and there, if they saved the last two bags for thursday. (One bag is calcium and the other is the third chemo drug, avastin.)

jackie thought that would be fine, she was tired, very tired.
(a bag 'o' benedryl being one of the culprits)

so, we came home, jackie was very tired, but unable to sleep.

we got settled later on, and she had a good night's sleep, didn't really wake up jumping out of bed, full of energy, but that's the way chemo goes.

her throat and mouth are very dry, so probably won't be having long phone conversations, but other then that, she's strong, and fighting like a good Hope Warrior should.

also, on the good wishes side...

in my previous post, i put the chant in as, "Erase, Eradicate, Shrink".
strictly setting up my best possible rhyme sequence...

elaine, suggested that we might want to change it to, "Shrink, Erase, Eradicate", since it acronym's nicely into "S.E.E".

so, in the future, it will be "SEE", as in "S.E.E. the cancer disappear"

more later, or later than that, not sure!

namaste,
dab

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