Okay – first things first. Despite what my crazy blog is doing I do not have chemo confusion. Chemo confusion is a real thing (much like pregnancy brain) and the regimen Tom has can make him easily confused or forgetful. He’s joked quite a bit when he does something silly that it was just chemo confusion. Now I’ve got quite a bit on my plate right now so I have jokingly referred to my own made up caretaker chemo confusion several times when I’ve got too much happening at once and do something goofy (like when I looked for my cell phone for ten minutes and it was in my hand). Anyway, this afternoon – I got a text from my cousin asking if I had chemo confusion because yesterday’s blog post said 12/4/2015 – which obviously isn’t until tomorrow. For the record the site auto populates the date so I don’t have a case of (caretaker) chemo confusion. Meanwhile, Tom has been pretending to play his chemo confusion card today by asking me what the Packers record is and what happened during the Bears/Packers game last week. I don’t think he appreciated my packer sweatshirt for the game tonight - nor did it probably help with his nausea. Long story short - the blog has been a bit goofy on the technology side - my apologies!
Anyway – on to more important things – we are over halfway done with our last chemo!! Tom rocked session three today but is feeling pretty rough. Last night was tough too – I was up quite late and as he was sleeping he was making noises and sort of mumbling in his sleep which led me to believe he was in pain. He said he doesn’t have much recollection and luckily isn’t in pain, it’s just the nausea he’s dealing with. It’s tough to have to sit and watch someone you love be so sick and really feel helpless in being able to do much for him to relive the nausea.
Despite that we had some fun today too – for those that know my mother-in-law you know she loves Christmas. I mean loves it on a whole other level. So today, we got a floral delivery and sure enough she sent us a baby Christmas tree for the room that even came with lights and ornaments to decorate it with since she felt it needed to be more festive in the room – it added a nice glow this evening as you can see in the picture. I won’t do a close up of ours versus how it’s “supposed” to look – it would be FAIL worthy due to my tragic light and ornament placement.
Then tonight we coordinated treating the nurses to some dinner! A special thank you to my sister-in-law and brother-in-law, my brother-in-law is a proprietor at Outback Steakhouse and was kind enough to bring up and treat the staff to a whole spread of appetizer’s for everyone to share and enjoy. The nurses were so excited and very thankful – one even asked what the name of one of the appetizers was because she wants to go get one at the restaurant :) We’ve got some different treats coming for our day shift tomorrow too. I had a hard time figuring out what to “get” our nurses as a thank you this week so we figured treats and thank you cards will have to do the trick for now. If I had millions and billions of dollars I would do something completely over the top, but even with all the money in the world there wouldn’t be something that would adequately thank them for everything they have done for us over these four rounds of chemo. It’s something money could never buy.
So I think it’s safe to say we are in our final countdown! 2 days of chemo to go and 3 nights in Hotel de Hospital….More to come tomorrow…
Anyway – on to more important things – we are over halfway done with our last chemo!! Tom rocked session three today but is feeling pretty rough. Last night was tough too – I was up quite late and as he was sleeping he was making noises and sort of mumbling in his sleep which led me to believe he was in pain. He said he doesn’t have much recollection and luckily isn’t in pain, it’s just the nausea he’s dealing with. It’s tough to have to sit and watch someone you love be so sick and really feel helpless in being able to do much for him to relive the nausea.
Despite that we had some fun today too – for those that know my mother-in-law you know she loves Christmas. I mean loves it on a whole other level. So today, we got a floral delivery and sure enough she sent us a baby Christmas tree for the room that even came with lights and ornaments to decorate it with since she felt it needed to be more festive in the room – it added a nice glow this evening as you can see in the picture. I won’t do a close up of ours versus how it’s “supposed” to look – it would be FAIL worthy due to my tragic light and ornament placement.
Then tonight we coordinated treating the nurses to some dinner! A special thank you to my sister-in-law and brother-in-law, my brother-in-law is a proprietor at Outback Steakhouse and was kind enough to bring up and treat the staff to a whole spread of appetizer’s for everyone to share and enjoy. The nurses were so excited and very thankful – one even asked what the name of one of the appetizers was because she wants to go get one at the restaurant :) We’ve got some different treats coming for our day shift tomorrow too. I had a hard time figuring out what to “get” our nurses as a thank you this week so we figured treats and thank you cards will have to do the trick for now. If I had millions and billions of dollars I would do something completely over the top, but even with all the money in the world there wouldn’t be something that would adequately thank them for everything they have done for us over these four rounds of chemo. It’s something money could never buy.
So I think it’s safe to say we are in our final countdown! 2 days of chemo to go and 3 nights in Hotel de Hospital….More to come tomorrow…