I have been tolerating chemo much better with less nausea and vomiting with each round. Dealing mostly with a lot of fatigue and resting in bed for a wek after the infusion. I started dealing with neuropathy which was just tingling in my fingers and toes. This last round started having pretty severe pain in my feet. I started on gabapentin but not having much relief yet. I saw the Symptom Management Team yesterday and we have a good game planocing forward. The Nurse Practitioner we saw was amazing and increased my gabapentin and oxycodone. I have an arthritis gel to apply to my feet and was referred to the Integrative Medicine to try acupuncture.
The great news is that my cancer marker keeps dropping with each cycle and my CT scan showed reduction in my tumors. I have been mainly on a full liquid diet since my last obstruction in July which has been extremely difficult. We got the go ahead to start SLOWLY adding solid foods back into my diet. For the first time in 4 months, we went out to eat as a family.
For my birthday, Wil had a big surprise for me. I had no idea what it was other than it was about 30 minutes away and it was on a Friday and I had to leave work early. We get off the exit and I figure out we are going to the Greensboro Science museum where you can feed penguins! I thought that was it. Then at the entrance, I see two of my sisters and their families. Well the surprises keep coming, more and more family keep showing up.y baby sister even flew from California and my brother in law drive from New Jersey just to come too! Seeing Anna made me ugly cry.
It was so amazing to get close to my favorite animal ever. They had such funny personalities. They would shake their head at you if they didn't like the type of fish you were trying to give them. I didn't realize that penguins swallow the fish while!
One of the penguins, Niffler, was getting a little jealous when I would give attention to another penguin and would start nibbling at my butt!
It was such a wonderful surprise and Wil kept it all a big secret. I felt so loved by all who took the time to come and spend time with us.
Wilson has been doing great in school and loves his teachers. He is about to finish up playing flag football, which has been a lot of fun to watch. Wilson is so fast and loves to play.
We also celebrated Wilson's 7th birthday. He had a bunch of friends over to play in the treehouse that Wil built and the ninja warrior course and have a cookout. The treehouse is amazing, as you would expect from an engineer! Our friends that we met at Holden Beach made the trip for the party too.
Parker just finished with taekwondo and will be starting swim lessons soon. Her speech therapy has been going so well that they decreased her to once a week instead of twice a week.
Prayer Requests :
1. For relief for my neuropathy, for better quality of life with it.
2. For the chemo to continue to work and shrink my tumors.
3. For protection from any bowel obstructions as I advance my diet with regular food.
4. Huge praise for validation that the chemo is working well and my nausea and vomiting have been more manageable!
