IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH

YESTERDAY (11/28), was Kenny and my 25th Wedding Anniversary as many of you know.  We felt so romantic spending it in the chemo infusion chair.  Our kind oncologist encouraged us that what better place to prove our committment was being their that day together after all these years, and he promised us another 25 years.  We're believing for that too.  Kenny as usual and even more so, was right by my side holding my hand.  I'm blessed.

I'VE STOPPED BETWEEN MEDS today to update you all on how it went and how its going.  So many of you have sent thoughtful comments on FB and otherwise letting us know you're holding us up.  The infusion itself was about 2 hours long once in the chair, the total visit including waiting, drawing blood, seeing the oncologist, then the infusion took about 5 hours.  A little scare at the beginning when the nurse could not get my chest port to access via a needle.  She said it was a small port, and she ended up enlisting the help of another nurse to give it a shot.  After about 4 sticks they reclined me back and finally got it!  I said a quick prayer right before that.  Failure to access would have meant a possible surgery replacement of that port and delay of chemo for that day.  So we were all relieved at results.

LAST NIGHT  I began to feel the waves of nausea starting around 7 pm.  Other than that just a dizzy, yukky, headachy type feeling all over.  I tried to eat something simple, not much.  Keeping the liquids in me.  Today, I felt pretty sluggish so far sleeping a lot.  Meds every 6 hours to help.  Stomach upset, getting worse, time to take the meds and hit the bed.  Till next time.  Thanks for the prayers.