Chemo Day 1

Sorry it to so long to update. I had a few visitors today so it took a little bit to get the blog. I was nice to see some friendly faces after chemo. We had a busy day today.

I saw Dr. Ken the natural path. He had good news all the medicine I am on is decreasing. Meaning my body needs less pills ha. That was good news today. We also took Kamden and Carter down to see Dr. Kenzie she is the peds doctor down there. We took two cars because they weren't done before I had to leave. So Carter had a lot of ear wax build up so that has slowed his speech and a possible ruptured one ear drum. Kamden is allergic to milk so we have to cut back on all milk intake. It has caused her some infections and to be constipated. So I am hoping they will both be on the way to getting better. So since Ryan had to stay with the kids and my dad is still in extreme pain from his back and my sister Kendall took him to a physical therapist appointment. I went alone for the first little bit.

I had my appointment at 12:30. We went over all the medicines again and the schedule of medicine which has changed. I am on three drugs first they give me some good anti-nausea medicine and that takes about 10 minutes, then the first drug is Navelbine with takes about 8-10minutes to drain in then Abraxane it take 60 minutes and then Herceptin which takes 90 minutes. So I do all three of those on day one. Then on day 8 which is next Tuesday I do just the Nessa medicine and the Navelbine that takes 10 minutes or so. Then the third week I am off and then fourth week or I should say back to day 1 of the cycle. I will be taking blood test once a week to watch the blood counts and also a shot they will do the day after day 8. The shot is to start my making my body produce more bone marrow. She said the first couple of shot will cause pain. She said after a couple of shots your body gets used to the shot and it isn't such bad pain. She said they forgot to tell someone about the pain and they showed up in the e.r. thinking they were having a heart attach from the pain in the breast bone. Today they gave me benadryl with one of the chemos. I took it on an empty stomach and the room started spinning so I closed my eyes and took a nice nap and it was time to go home. I have to say it was such a nice break to set and visit with Ryan and the couple next to us. And it was a bigger bonus no side affects today. I feel pretty good. We will see what the days ahead bring but today was a great day. Ryan said wait it will get worse or you will have bad days. I know I will but today was a good day. I am thankful for the blessing of a a good day and feeling good.

I love getting all the messages it is so uplifting to get those at night and in the morning it sure is helpful Thank you. I wanted to post my testimony yesterday but I didn't have a chance so maybe tomorrow. Sorry for those that heard it on Sunday to hear it again but I thought it would be fun for those who weren't there. So we will see how I feel tomorrow.

Thank you!