Wonderful news…still at home! J Keep those prayers coming, I can feel them
working and have been feeling well (no fevers)!
I am tired (reminds me of the fatigue I had in my first trimester with
Scotty), and I have my first “mouth sore” related to the chemo (which means no
acidic or spicy foods) but other than adding a nap or two to my routine and
making sure to rinse my mouth with baking soda and water every few hours, not
biggie/ Still SO good to be home with my
boys and my mom!! Not much compares to
being able to nap on your own couch and snuggle with my boys in the evening
when everyone gets home from work/daycare!
I had an outpatient appointment at the Kaiser oncology
office yesterday and they said that my counts were just at the threshold for a
red blood cell transfusion but since I was feeling good (no shortness of breath
or major fatigue) they let me go yesterday and said to expect a transfusion
when I come in tomorrow. So, my mom will
go with me to my outpatient appt tomorrow and we’ll hang out for 4-5 hrs for a
red blood cell transfusion. My mom will
be knitting and I’m planning to take my hole punch, recipe binder that I got
from my “foodie friend” Pauline (the one who taught me to make homemade bagels
& challah bread) and tomorrow I’ll spend my afternoon organizing my recipes
while I get my transfusion. My mom has
been making all of our favorite dinners and stocking our freezer so that when
she goes back to CA this weekend we are all stocked up J
Still neutropenic so that means my mom has been running all
of my errands for me. I drive (feels
good to get out of the house) but I’m not allowed to be “in public” so I stay
in the car and send her in to Target, Sprouts, the Post Office, Walgreens,
etc. I just sit in the car & read
magazines...pretty sweet deal if you ask me J lol
Hoping that my counts start to bounce back here soon so that
we can “stay on track” for Phase B of this first round of chemo. If my counts come back up as the doctor
hopes, then I’ll likely readmit to the hospital midweek next week for Phase B
which hopefully will be a 5 day hospitalization & then back home again if
all goes according to plan. I really
just want to stay on track so we can get this ball rolling, find out that I’m
in remission & keep moving forward with the plan. One step at a time, but I’ve got hope that
this will all be behind us by the end of the summer and that we can celebrate
with a trip down to my parents cabin in Pagosa for a nice relaxing Labor Day
weekend come September!
-Chellie
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