Long Day

Mom went with me to the Cancer Center this morning at 8:30. She got to see my chemo day routine: blood draw from my port, taking my blood samples to the lab, then the waiting. The lab has to do their thing with the blood samples, then they send info up to the pharmacy. The pharmacy puts all the chemo drugs for my treatment into zip loc bags labeled very carefully. My chemo was scheduled for 9:30 but I sat in the chair waiting and waiting. But Mom and I chatted and I introduced her to lots of the nurses. Finally my stuff arrived from the pharmacy at 10:30. I mentioned to the nurse that my oncologist was hoping to add another drug to my chemo this week. She looked in my file and then realized she had to go back to the pharmacy and get that drug. So finally my chemotherapy began at 11:00. Oh...and adding this new drug meant adding 2 more hours to my chemo today! So my usual 2 1/2 hour chemo time became 4 1/2 hours today. Poor Mom. At least she had her diary and a book to read. We got home at about 4:00 this afternoon.

Although it was a little annoying that things took so long today, I am very excited about the new drug. My chemo treatment is geared at killing all the fast growing cells in my body. Because cancer cells grow really fast. But in killing the fast growing cancer cells, they also kill a lot of other cells in my body. That's why my hair fell out. This new drug will attack only my cancer cells and is designed to keep the cells from dividing. I'll tell you more about it when I understand it better myself. Anyway, Praise the Lord for another weapon in fighting this stuff!

Dad and Greg had a fun time buying groceries at Freddies, going to Costco, and test-driving a Prius. All evening tonight Greg was trying to figure out how much the payments would be. I can tell he's tempted...Mom made a delici0us meal tonight! She promised she would send me the recipe ( she made it by memory) so I can make the Thai Chicken Noodle dish she made tonight.

I keep running into people who tell me they are reading this blog and it makes me so happy to know people are interested in what's going on with us. I always love reading your comments. Thank you for remembering me in your prayers. Love, Julie