Chemo 3B: Niece Nola's Dedication and another round of Taxol

I meant to write a blog last week to let everyone know how I was feeling. Wil and I were honestly so exhausted, it was the last thing on the To-Do list. I didn't sleep much the weekend before the inpatient chemo since I was having to wake up at all hours to take meds and the steroids jack me up. Monday in the hospital, neither one of really slept. I was able to take a little nap when we got home Tuesday morning and Wil took one later that afternoon. It took us all week to catch up on our sleep. I had to come home during the day on Wednesday from work to take a 2 hour nap and was asleep that night by 8 pm. I finally started feeling the fatigue lessen by Friday, which felt amazing!

This weekend, Wil and I took our first trip to Cary to visit my family since the recurrence. Saturday, we had breakfast with Wil's 90 year old Grandaddy and Wil's dad, Ted. Grandaddy always cracks me up. We drove him home to Burlington, since it was on our way to Cary. Grandaddy said that he had two things he wanted to work on this weekend, his genealogy and his obituary. Wil asked him why he needed to work on his obituary, since he is doing pretty good for 90 years old! Grandaddy, without skipping a beat said, "Cause you fools will mess it up!" We got a good laugh out of him.

My younger sister, Lauren and her husband, Hunter, had their youngest daughter Nola dedicated at church. We were so happy that we were able to make it. We love getting to spend time with all of our nieces and watching them grow up. They are all getting so big! My older sister's baby, Naomi, got to play with us all day Sunday too!

 

Hunter, Lauren, Tillie, and Nola up on stage

 

Uncle Wil getting some love from Naomi and Tillie!

 

 

Chemo today was just the Taxol at the outpatient unit. No issues at all! My ANC (mature white blood cells) were slightly low, 1200. They prefer it to be above 1500 for treatment, but my oncologist approved it since it was close. I don't have to be housebound until it drops below 1000. Below 500, I'm housebound on strong antibiotics. Wil's birthday is Saturday and we are suppose to go to the Garth concert. I will have my counts checked again on Friday since they typically drop more 8-14 days after Carbo. We have to make sure that my white blood cell counts are high enough before being around a lot of people. So we shall see!

 

 

My buddy from ICU, Jennifer McBride brought us beef stew for dinner. It was amazing!