Chemo 4B: H.O.P.E. and recovering from Carbo

This last week was a tough week for fatigue and nausea for me. I "worked" Wednesday through Friday. I ended up leaving a few hours early Wednesday and Thursday I went home for a 4.5 hour nap. There is nothing that can battle fatigue other than rest and Wil is really good about helping me during that. Nausea is helped by some pills that also make me tired. It is a vicious cycle sometimes. I turned the corner on Friday, and after taking it easy on Saturday, felt almost back to my new normal.

One of my favorite cups

My counts today all looked good, but steroids (since I got pre-meds all weekend and double dose IV) can falsely elevate these. Treatment went normally today followed by a LOVELY nap in my own bed. Wil and I forgot to take a picture in the treatment room, so this one was taken on the way home. We were busy trying to see our buddies, the Riazzis. They FINALLY switched to Mondays to hang out with us for their last 3 treatments. She is in the home stretch and we are so very excited for them!








Yesterday, with some of our small group from church, volunteered at
H.O.P.E. It stands for Help Our People Eat and is a wonderful organization. They take bagged lunches to low income neighborhoods with little or no access to healthy meals. Anyone 0-18 gets a healthy bagged lunch and a carton of milk and any adult can get a bag of produce. Tim drove the truck and we went to 4 different neighborhoods to hand out these meals. There was also a van that went to 3 locations. They ended up with extra meals this week and these were donated to the women's shelter. Wil and I were amazed with their use of resources, donations, and efficiency of the whole operation. Here is their link if you are looking for somewhere to donate or volunteer. We highly recommend it and we can't wait to go back and help!  http://www.hopews.org/our-mission

Tim driving the big truck

Wil, Kyler, and Brady riding in the back of the truck
around one of the neighborhoods

A-Dre asked Wil if he had any more Santa hats. Wil gave him his
NCSU hat and found out that is where A-Dre wants to go when
he grows up! He even did the wolfpack sign to Wil!

The boys getting the truck unloaded at one of the sites

Our whole small group!

Wil and I with the boys. They did such an amazing job
and were so excited to hand out meals to all the kids!