We’ve hit single digits for our remaining chemo treatments! Only 9 more to go! Woo hoo! Today was an interesting day, but a good day. Tom woke up feeling a little blah (I can’t blame him at all), and overwhelmed by the thought of starting another round of treatment. He basically woke up at 4am and never fell back asleep because he couldn’t turn off his mind. Anyway, we got up, and got checked in here at the hospital to get things moving.
It’s like a mini-reunion when we come in for treatment, we truly have gotten close with many of our nurses and they all get excited, say hi, fill us in on the past few weeks of their lives, and of course see how Tom is doing. As we were doing all the catching up, we got escorted to our room and our nurses reserved us the BIG room! I know, I know. Small thrills, but it’s the closest thing to a hotel upgrade here and quite exciting. Our room is a corner suite so it just has a little more room to breathe between all the furniture/computer/IV/medical equipment, etc. It probably seems trivial, but it makes a difference, especially for me since I’m working all day out of the hospital. It helps to have a little more room and a cart for my office setup. Plus, he got a bed for tall people which they publicize to the world outside of our room as “Hercules”. So basically, Tom is Hercules. Which presents a problem for me since Hercules' love interest in the Disney movie always had questionable eye shadow choices. Anyway, back to my point, the location of this room has less traffic so it’s much quieter too. And, for some reason, it’s the proud home of 8 ladybugs. (I’ll figure that out before we leave)
Treatment went well today and our doctor came in with great news about Tom’s blood work. He is definitely killing this cancer and making incredible progress in doing so. The levels show that his body is rapidly attacking the bad cancer cells and those reports came before we even started treatment today, so we are hopeful this round can have a great impact too. With that said, treatments are getting tougher and tougher for Tom as his body has gotten weaker and having a harder time fighting back. For example, in previous cycles, the first day of treatment hasn’t hit him too hard. Certainly he feels nausea, etc., but for the most part he doesn’t feel miserable. However, tonight at around 9PM he really hit a wall and said that he was feeling closer to how he feels on Day 3 than on Night 1. I’m hopeful that is partly because he was up so early and is just tired – but we may have a long week ahead. Either way, we will power through and knock out this treatment so we are one step closer to our last round of chemo.
Since we always take post-chemo shots, we decided to take a pre-chemo photo this time. All the love, prayers and good thoughts you can send our way would be appreciated – more to come tomorrow…
It’s like a mini-reunion when we come in for treatment, we truly have gotten close with many of our nurses and they all get excited, say hi, fill us in on the past few weeks of their lives, and of course see how Tom is doing. As we were doing all the catching up, we got escorted to our room and our nurses reserved us the BIG room! I know, I know. Small thrills, but it’s the closest thing to a hotel upgrade here and quite exciting. Our room is a corner suite so it just has a little more room to breathe between all the furniture/computer/IV/medical equipment, etc. It probably seems trivial, but it makes a difference, especially for me since I’m working all day out of the hospital. It helps to have a little more room and a cart for my office setup. Plus, he got a bed for tall people which they publicize to the world outside of our room as “Hercules”. So basically, Tom is Hercules. Which presents a problem for me since Hercules' love interest in the Disney movie always had questionable eye shadow choices. Anyway, back to my point, the location of this room has less traffic so it’s much quieter too. And, for some reason, it’s the proud home of 8 ladybugs. (I’ll figure that out before we leave)
Treatment went well today and our doctor came in with great news about Tom’s blood work. He is definitely killing this cancer and making incredible progress in doing so. The levels show that his body is rapidly attacking the bad cancer cells and those reports came before we even started treatment today, so we are hopeful this round can have a great impact too. With that said, treatments are getting tougher and tougher for Tom as his body has gotten weaker and having a harder time fighting back. For example, in previous cycles, the first day of treatment hasn’t hit him too hard. Certainly he feels nausea, etc., but for the most part he doesn’t feel miserable. However, tonight at around 9PM he really hit a wall and said that he was feeling closer to how he feels on Day 3 than on Night 1. I’m hopeful that is partly because he was up so early and is just tired – but we may have a long week ahead. Either way, we will power through and knock out this treatment so we are one step closer to our last round of chemo.
Since we always take post-chemo shots, we decided to take a pre-chemo photo this time. All the love, prayers and good thoughts you can send our way would be appreciated – more to come tomorrow…