We’ve turned the corner! Hell we’ve turned the corner and are almost on the next block. I’m SO proud of my husband who has made it through the first round of chemo and the initial post-chemo days which were incredibly tough. However, now he is feeling much better - the Cubs wild card came probably had something to do with that too. In fact yesterday, there was a chance that we were going to need to go back to the doctor to get some fluids and supplements depending on his blood results from Thursday and they called and said everything was looking great so far and there was no need. Woo hoo! With the initial post-chemo days complete he is on way fewer medications, sleeping through the night (hallelujah!) and his appetite is rebounding out a bit.
In a weird way it almost plays with our minds more that he’s feeling good because (1) good has a whole different meaning in his current condition (2) we still have to be careful of lots of people/crowds because he still has super low counts and (3) we still have this cloud of knowing we’ve got to do this all over again in 9 days. However, in our quest to be positive we are encouraged by how well he’s doing and being able to figure out what the ups and downs of these chemo cycles will be – and the fact that it looks like we will have a good stretch of “ups” within these chemo cycles is wonderful.
Today felt sort of normal as I ran some errands to pick up some stuff we needed (including my own self-prescribed medicine – see right). All in all – we are preparing for what we hope is a calm week - more to come...
In a weird way it almost plays with our minds more that he’s feeling good because (1) good has a whole different meaning in his current condition (2) we still have to be careful of lots of people/crowds because he still has super low counts and (3) we still have this cloud of knowing we’ve got to do this all over again in 9 days. However, in our quest to be positive we are encouraged by how well he’s doing and being able to figure out what the ups and downs of these chemo cycles will be – and the fact that it looks like we will have a good stretch of “ups” within these chemo cycles is wonderful.
Today felt sort of normal as I ran some errands to pick up some stuff we needed (including my own self-prescribed medicine – see right). All in all – we are preparing for what we hope is a calm week - more to come...