Last night we were flipping between the Hawks game and Next Food Network Star - the rain really cooled the temperature down. We got a call from Uncle Bry and got to catch up a bit and we are hoping he comes down sometime in July to see us.
It was Ellie's last day of school today and we got up and got her off to the bus stop. Nick and I got ready and headed to school for 2nd grade awards. Ellie received MVP Team Player award from her gym teacher. Nick and I darted out of school and off to Mom's. This is my first full week of radiation (I've been eased in by a 3 and 4 day week previously) I think this week will tire me out. It was an ultra quick appointment today - Mom was surprised when I called to say I was through. We drove to our house to pick Ellie up off the bus.
We hung out for a bit before deciding to go to the library to register for the summer reading club. Ellie is very excited that the theme is Clue related this year - Nick was excited that the jungle safari mobile from last year was turned into a train this year. We checked out some books before going back to Mom's for lunch. Mom fixed lunch for us - delicious leftovers from yesterday that seemed to marinate and be better today. I was able to put my feet up and close my eyes for a bit. I am feeling muscular pain today and the feeling is back where I can tell you exactly where they are radiating.
The kids and Mom went out for some vitamin D and to try some beading craft (Nick is not old enough yet). We eventually left for Target to pick up my refill of zofran and to get some new popsicles and breakfast stuff. We came home and got ready for Ellie's pottery class - her summer session began tonight (and thankfully there are enough children registered it won't be cancelled). Nick and I drove Ellie to class and saw Christi dropping Catherine and Ben off for class and they nicely included Ellie in their plans for miniature golf and ice cream tonight. My evening medication drives me nuts because its all about timing - zofran about an hour before I want to eat, eat dinner and then xeolda about 30 minutes after I eat - I feel like I have to set a timer sometimes.
Christi dropped off Ellie for family dinner (she is getting picked up soon). The stupid helicopter is back again tonight - it is seriously going to drive me crazy. We had our dinner together and the kids are watching Hollie Hobbie. I am thinking about a hot shower - not too motivated yet. Oh, I got an award today, too - World's Best Room Parent - this put a smile on my face.
Hope everyone is enjoying the cooler weather - I am! Visualising my healthy body, Tree
Monday, June 7, 2010
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Sunday Sunday
As anticipated, last night was a longer night with Nick. He woke up a couple times with coughing that I was positive was going to lead to vomiting but, thankfully, never did. We all slept in this morning - Nick and I were up around 8:15 and Ellie around 8:30. Nick still was complaining he didn't feel good so Rob and Ellie went to Church and Nick and I stayed home. Nick totally wiped out running to see Rob and Ellie leave and hit his chin on the wood part of the chair in the living room causing instant screams of pain. Luckily, no blood or broken teeth.
Nick and I just cuddled on the couch and took it easy until Rob and Ellie got home. I went up to take a shower and put away a couple baskets of clean clothes. The kids went out and played with the neighbors. It is the 1st Sunday of the month - Family Sunday at Mom's - Grandma and Grandpa GG and Uncle Bill join our regular bunch for dinner. Mom put out quite the spread of food including some very yummy mac and cheese. The kids all played out in the yard while we got the dinner together and had a great time.
We had dinner and dessert - Nick started complaining about his tongue hurting him - I really think this boy is having sympathy symptoms for me (the tummy not feeling good, tongue is sore, mouth is sore). Nick only ate a couple slices of watermelon and a brownie for dinner. Oh, and cracker jack (Grandma GG bought each of the kids some and Nick decided it was for dinner). I probably ate the most I have all week but soon regretted it because something didn't agree with my tummy. We had a nice visit with the GG's and Uncle Bill before making our way home.
I got a bath ready for Nick and pj's ready. We opened some windows to air the house out. There has been a helicopter flying somewhere near our house for about an hour now - kind of annoying. One of our neighbors is watching the Hawks game and we can tell anytime they score because of the yells and screams.
I finally gave in and took 1/2 a loparimide in hope of slowing down the runs to the washroom. Tomorrow is Ellie's last day of 2nd grade - can't believe it - time has flown by. Today was a real nice, low speed day. Looking forward to knocking out another 5 treatments this week - pushing toward 50% finished. Visualising my healthy body, Tree
Nick and I just cuddled on the couch and took it easy until Rob and Ellie got home. I went up to take a shower and put away a couple baskets of clean clothes. The kids went out and played with the neighbors. It is the 1st Sunday of the month - Family Sunday at Mom's - Grandma and Grandpa GG and Uncle Bill join our regular bunch for dinner. Mom put out quite the spread of food including some very yummy mac and cheese. The kids all played out in the yard while we got the dinner together and had a great time.
We had dinner and dessert - Nick started complaining about his tongue hurting him - I really think this boy is having sympathy symptoms for me (the tummy not feeling good, tongue is sore, mouth is sore). Nick only ate a couple slices of watermelon and a brownie for dinner. Oh, and cracker jack (Grandma GG bought each of the kids some and Nick decided it was for dinner). I probably ate the most I have all week but soon regretted it because something didn't agree with my tummy. We had a nice visit with the GG's and Uncle Bill before making our way home.
I got a bath ready for Nick and pj's ready. We opened some windows to air the house out. There has been a helicopter flying somewhere near our house for about an hour now - kind of annoying. One of our neighbors is watching the Hawks game and we can tell anytime they score because of the yells and screams.
I finally gave in and took 1/2 a loparimide in hope of slowing down the runs to the washroom. Tomorrow is Ellie's last day of 2nd grade - can't believe it - time has flown by. Today was a real nice, low speed day. Looking forward to knocking out another 5 treatments this week - pushing toward 50% finished. Visualising my healthy body, Tree
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Saturday Family Day
I got to sleep in until 8:15 this morning! I got up and had my breakfast - apple scrapple bread and yogurt. I cut Ellie a piece - she likes it too! Nick has been telling me for the last few days he doesn't feel good - I've been passing it off as him hearing it from me - but I think the little kid generally doesn't feel good today. Rob went to do some work and the kids and I got dressed before hitting Mom and Dad's house.
We hung out there for a couple hours - enough time for Nick to break Grandpa's model car about a dozen times. I was able to get some quiet time in and decided to round up the kids and we would head to Ikea. We picked up Rob and got on the road - Nick actually fell asleep in the car. We had lunch at Ikea and then went looking around unfortunately, I remembered Ikea having far more kitchen organization products than they actually do - we left empty handed. While in the area we stopped at the thrift store and at the woodworking store before heading back home.
Rob watched the kids play outside while I put my feet up and took a little nap. Rob's co-workers were throwing their annual end of the year bash and we rallied and all went for a little bit. Nick and Ellie had a ball with their little dogs and playing ball with them (in the rain). We only stayed for about an hour because I needed to get home for my evening xeloda dose.
Rob gave the kids a quick bath and then it was off to bed. Nick is still complaining about his tummy so it might be a long night. I was just flipping through the channels and found out that fine living is now the cooking channel - bonus! I am going to go rub some lotion into my feet and go to bed - its been one of those days that you don't really do anything but are exhausted from. Visualising my healthy body, Tree
We hung out there for a couple hours - enough time for Nick to break Grandpa's model car about a dozen times. I was able to get some quiet time in and decided to round up the kids and we would head to Ikea. We picked up Rob and got on the road - Nick actually fell asleep in the car. We had lunch at Ikea and then went looking around unfortunately, I remembered Ikea having far more kitchen organization products than they actually do - we left empty handed. While in the area we stopped at the thrift store and at the woodworking store before heading back home.
Rob watched the kids play outside while I put my feet up and took a little nap. Rob's co-workers were throwing their annual end of the year bash and we rallied and all went for a little bit. Nick and Ellie had a ball with their little dogs and playing ball with them (in the rain). We only stayed for about an hour because I needed to get home for my evening xeloda dose.
Rob gave the kids a quick bath and then it was off to bed. Nick is still complaining about his tummy so it might be a long night. I was just flipping through the channels and found out that fine living is now the cooking channel - bonus! I am going to go rub some lotion into my feet and go to bed - its been one of those days that you don't really do anything but are exhausted from. Visualising my healthy body, Tree
Friday, June 4, 2010
Friday and 25% Finished
Standard night here last night except for the fact that I've learned spearmint toothpaste no longer is refreshing and actually is kind of dry heave producing and that too many glasses of ginger ale lead to sweet mouth. I ended up making some lipton black tea to break the taste in my mouth up - it worked.
We were all up at normal time and ate breakfast together before sending Ellie out to the bus and Nick and I to Mom's. It's summer hours for Jo so she gets to join us on Fridays through the summer. Nick wasn't playing so nice this morning with Tony - they both wanted the same thing at the same time and Nick was not into sharing. Our friend Mrs. B stopped in and she dropped of a new canker sore product for me to try in my mouth. We eventually got to my appointment and was told they would try to get films again - not sure if they were successful or not - didn't ask. When I met the gang at the car they really hustled while I was at my appointment - they hit Dunkin Dounuts and got munchkins for Ellie's field day party (I was going to bring carrots and Mom and Jo told me I was being "that" Mom) and went to Great Harvest Bread and got my old favorite apple scrapple and Jo tried their pesto asiago and chocolate babka (a carb lovers paradise).
We went back to Mom's and Nick and I were on our way home to get ready for field day. I made a huge sipper of iced tea for us to share and we picked out some chalk and a Frisbee. We got to school just as the class was coming inside from recess. Ellie and I ran to the nurse to pick up her medication to take home for the summer and then off to class for the party. I have to say - it was so nice this party was taken care of by Ellie's teacher and I didn't have to organize anything because I don't know that it would have come together the way it did. They had pizza, cherries, grapes, watermelon, strawberries, chips and drinks - and munchkins for dessert. After lunch we cleaned up and went to the park for the field day component. I originally wasn't going to go because of the sun but I decided to go for a bit for Ellie. I loaded spf 50 on and can I tell you that stuff is like spreading cream cheese of your skin it never quite penetrates.
The park was great because I got to catch up with my real bff - Christi and Nick got to visit with his girlfriend 'Nana (Christi's youngest - Christi's eldest daughter and Ellie been in school together since preschool). Before all this cancer yuck we would see each other at least once a week but usually more and since then its been school related run-ins. We ended up staying for a bit over an hour and I had a real nice time with Christi and a bonus conversation with Jody (Nick's old teacher and friend). She told me the funniest joke - I'll share:
A woman has an ob/gyn appointment to get ready for and knows she doesn't have enough time to shower so she does a washcloth clean up in her bathroom and paints her toes. She gets to the office and gets called in and places her legs up and the doctor says, "Wow, you got all fancy for me today." She thought about her toenails - it wasn't until she returned home and went to the washroom again that she realized the washcloth she used was loaded with glitter from a prior clean up. Haha
Nick and I came home and I was really hoping for an hour nap before getting Ellie but Nick was needy today. Rob was getting home just as Ellie was getting off the bus and he said he would watch them outside so I could close my eyes but that didn't happen. I at least got to put my feet up for a while. Eventually, we called the kids in to make a game plan for dinner - Ellie wanted pizza again. Ellie and I ran to the produce market to get some healthy choice snacks and replenish our kefir supply and then swing by and get our pizza.
We had dinner together and I experimented with meds - I am supposed to take the zofran an hour before I eat dinner but I forgot so I took it and ate dinner - seems to be okay but an hour and a half later I feel like I have a burp I can't get out. Got the kids to bed and now Rob and I are on the couch kind of watching the Hawks game and typing away on our laptops.
All in all - it was a great day. I got to see some old friends and catch up, I got to be outside for longer than 5 minutes and I got to see Ellie very happy. I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend, visualising my healthy body, Tree
We were all up at normal time and ate breakfast together before sending Ellie out to the bus and Nick and I to Mom's. It's summer hours for Jo so she gets to join us on Fridays through the summer. Nick wasn't playing so nice this morning with Tony - they both wanted the same thing at the same time and Nick was not into sharing. Our friend Mrs. B stopped in and she dropped of a new canker sore product for me to try in my mouth. We eventually got to my appointment and was told they would try to get films again - not sure if they were successful or not - didn't ask. When I met the gang at the car they really hustled while I was at my appointment - they hit Dunkin Dounuts and got munchkins for Ellie's field day party (I was going to bring carrots and Mom and Jo told me I was being "that" Mom) and went to Great Harvest Bread and got my old favorite apple scrapple and Jo tried their pesto asiago and chocolate babka (a carb lovers paradise).
We went back to Mom's and Nick and I were on our way home to get ready for field day. I made a huge sipper of iced tea for us to share and we picked out some chalk and a Frisbee. We got to school just as the class was coming inside from recess. Ellie and I ran to the nurse to pick up her medication to take home for the summer and then off to class for the party. I have to say - it was so nice this party was taken care of by Ellie's teacher and I didn't have to organize anything because I don't know that it would have come together the way it did. They had pizza, cherries, grapes, watermelon, strawberries, chips and drinks - and munchkins for dessert. After lunch we cleaned up and went to the park for the field day component. I originally wasn't going to go because of the sun but I decided to go for a bit for Ellie. I loaded spf 50 on and can I tell you that stuff is like spreading cream cheese of your skin it never quite penetrates.
The park was great because I got to catch up with my real bff - Christi and Nick got to visit with his girlfriend 'Nana (Christi's youngest - Christi's eldest daughter and Ellie been in school together since preschool). Before all this cancer yuck we would see each other at least once a week but usually more and since then its been school related run-ins. We ended up staying for a bit over an hour and I had a real nice time with Christi and a bonus conversation with Jody (Nick's old teacher and friend). She told me the funniest joke - I'll share:
A woman has an ob/gyn appointment to get ready for and knows she doesn't have enough time to shower so she does a washcloth clean up in her bathroom and paints her toes. She gets to the office and gets called in and places her legs up and the doctor says, "Wow, you got all fancy for me today." She thought about her toenails - it wasn't until she returned home and went to the washroom again that she realized the washcloth she used was loaded with glitter from a prior clean up. Haha
Nick and I came home and I was really hoping for an hour nap before getting Ellie but Nick was needy today. Rob was getting home just as Ellie was getting off the bus and he said he would watch them outside so I could close my eyes but that didn't happen. I at least got to put my feet up for a while. Eventually, we called the kids in to make a game plan for dinner - Ellie wanted pizza again. Ellie and I ran to the produce market to get some healthy choice snacks and replenish our kefir supply and then swing by and get our pizza.
We had dinner together and I experimented with meds - I am supposed to take the zofran an hour before I eat dinner but I forgot so I took it and ate dinner - seems to be okay but an hour and a half later I feel like I have a burp I can't get out. Got the kids to bed and now Rob and I are on the couch kind of watching the Hawks game and typing away on our laptops.
All in all - it was a great day. I got to see some old friends and catch up, I got to be outside for longer than 5 minutes and I got to see Ellie very happy. I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend, visualising my healthy body, Tree
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Zofran is my new BFF - for now
Nothing to say much about last night - Rob and I switched between the Hawks game and I think HGTV. Slept okay. We all woke up at normal time and went downstairs for the day. I started the day with a zofran pill - my new anti-nausea medication and I have to say (so far) it is working well. I waited about 30 minutes and had a yogurt before taking my morning xeloda. While eating my yogurt I was feeling something weird in my lower gums - little sores have formed now. So far they aren't that much of a bother - I am sure with certain foods they will possibly bother me.
We got Ellie off on the bus and Nick and I headed to Mom's. Tony was there today - so Nick had a playmate. Mom made me banana chocolate chip muffins - so I tired one with a bit of tea and it stayed down - no dry heaves this morning.
We got on the road to the hospital and I got to my appointment. Becki met me and explained that for QC they would be taking films today to make sure I was receiving the required dose at the required point. Because of said films the appointment ran long today and then when I was leaving Becki told me the film part of the machine wasn't properly functioning and the film weren't able to be taken today and we might try again later. Mom picked me up and we went on a gift finding mission. We were at Dick's Sporting Goods when Tony decided to break loose and run from one side of the store all the way to the other - I was chasing him yelling - run Forrest, run.
We went back to Mom's and the boys had some lunch - I drank some ginger ale and then we went to play in the new water table outside. Since my hyper photo sensitivity I only stayed outside a couple minutes before retreating to the porch to take my nap. The boys sounded like they were having a blast though. Nick woke me up a while later with a kiss on my neck - the sweetest he has ever woken me up. We went home to get Ellie.
Ellie had fly up day today at school - the children get to fly up to the next grade and meet their teachers and find out who is in class with them next year. Ellie will have Mrs. Bart - her old kindergarten teacher who was moved to 3rd grade right after Ellie finished kindergarten - all of us couldn't be happier. It is so reassuring to know that in the fall when life goes a bit crazy for a couple months that there is a comforting soul there for us.
The kids and I went outside to enjoy the breeze a bit before Rob came home. We had some chinese re-heats tonight. I went up for a bath while everyone was finishing dinner and was able to enjoy it tonight without the tears and frustration. I think its time for a cup of tea so I will leave this with visualising my healthy body, Tree
We got Ellie off on the bus and Nick and I headed to Mom's. Tony was there today - so Nick had a playmate. Mom made me banana chocolate chip muffins - so I tired one with a bit of tea and it stayed down - no dry heaves this morning.
We got on the road to the hospital and I got to my appointment. Becki met me and explained that for QC they would be taking films today to make sure I was receiving the required dose at the required point. Because of said films the appointment ran long today and then when I was leaving Becki told me the film part of the machine wasn't properly functioning and the film weren't able to be taken today and we might try again later. Mom picked me up and we went on a gift finding mission. We were at Dick's Sporting Goods when Tony decided to break loose and run from one side of the store all the way to the other - I was chasing him yelling - run Forrest, run.
We went back to Mom's and the boys had some lunch - I drank some ginger ale and then we went to play in the new water table outside. Since my hyper photo sensitivity I only stayed outside a couple minutes before retreating to the porch to take my nap. The boys sounded like they were having a blast though. Nick woke me up a while later with a kiss on my neck - the sweetest he has ever woken me up. We went home to get Ellie.
Ellie had fly up day today at school - the children get to fly up to the next grade and meet their teachers and find out who is in class with them next year. Ellie will have Mrs. Bart - her old kindergarten teacher who was moved to 3rd grade right after Ellie finished kindergarten - all of us couldn't be happier. It is so reassuring to know that in the fall when life goes a bit crazy for a couple months that there is a comforting soul there for us.
The kids and I went outside to enjoy the breeze a bit before Rob came home. We had some chinese re-heats tonight. I went up for a bath while everyone was finishing dinner and was able to enjoy it tonight without the tears and frustration. I think its time for a cup of tea so I will leave this with visualising my healthy body, Tree
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
And the crappy side effects continue
Last night was an early to bed night for me - I had some sleep I wanted to catch up on and I have to say for the most part I was pretty successful.
Nick slept in this morning but Ellie was up at regular time. My stomach wasn't as bad as it was yesterday but I did notice food wasn't tasting so good and taking my pills seemed to make me reconsider immediately my decision to take them all at once. I got Ellie out to the bus and Nick finally woke up. We headed to Mom's house. I had my morning tea - trying to settle my tummy - really didn't work today - instead of just dry heaves I actually moved onto vomiting this morning.
I got to the hospital and Jenny asked how I was feeling - if the nausea had gotten any better and I told her - no it was worse. Lucky me, Dr. Nanda was there today and I got to meet with him for a couple minute - he makes me laugh. He asked if I had just systematically decided to check off each of the side effects he had told me about. He also told me the best thing for my hemorrhoids would be to walk around the house naked under a mumu dress. He changed my anti-nausea medication and suggested I take it upon waking and about an hour before dinner. I had my treatment - which it seemed everyone was eager to do quickly today.
Nick has been asking to go to Big Lots for a couple weeks now - so we went after the hospital. Then we went back to Mom's and I took my nap while Nick watched Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and ate his lunch. Mom fixed me lunch - cinnamon toast, bananas and greek yogurt. I decided to get going to Target to pick up my prescription and milk. Nick decided he wanted to stay at Mom's and come with her later for dinner.
The pharmacist told me that our insurance will only cover 5 days at a time for the new anti-nausea medicine - I will talk with someone at Kellogg tomorrow because that is kind of nuts. I got home and got Ellie off the bus - she played DS while I put my feet up.
Mom and Nick arrived and the kids decided to play outside for a bit. Mom massaged my feet with the new lotion she bought me - so nice. We got stuff ready for dinner - I took my new anti-nausea pill and hoped for the best. Rob got home in time to give Nick his bath and Dad arrived soon after. I tried to eat but everything kept getting stuck in my throat. I ended dinner with my garbage can and dry heaves. Ellie rubbed my back as I sat over the garbage can - I hate this. I also hate that Nick says Mama doesn't feel good. I pretty much hate it all today - I know this has a point but I truly feel icky. After dinner I escaped to the bathtub for a little while and soaked in the peace and soaked out the tears - pity party for one please. Maybe its time for the anti-depressant - that is one pill I don't have yet.
Dad made me some mint tea - the kids played with Mom and Dad, Rob did the dishes and I sat on the couch. I kind of feel like its garbage can time soon - visualising my health body, Tree
Nick slept in this morning but Ellie was up at regular time. My stomach wasn't as bad as it was yesterday but I did notice food wasn't tasting so good and taking my pills seemed to make me reconsider immediately my decision to take them all at once. I got Ellie out to the bus and Nick finally woke up. We headed to Mom's house. I had my morning tea - trying to settle my tummy - really didn't work today - instead of just dry heaves I actually moved onto vomiting this morning.
I got to the hospital and Jenny asked how I was feeling - if the nausea had gotten any better and I told her - no it was worse. Lucky me, Dr. Nanda was there today and I got to meet with him for a couple minute - he makes me laugh. He asked if I had just systematically decided to check off each of the side effects he had told me about. He also told me the best thing for my hemorrhoids would be to walk around the house naked under a mumu dress. He changed my anti-nausea medication and suggested I take it upon waking and about an hour before dinner. I had my treatment - which it seemed everyone was eager to do quickly today.
Nick has been asking to go to Big Lots for a couple weeks now - so we went after the hospital. Then we went back to Mom's and I took my nap while Nick watched Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and ate his lunch. Mom fixed me lunch - cinnamon toast, bananas and greek yogurt. I decided to get going to Target to pick up my prescription and milk. Nick decided he wanted to stay at Mom's and come with her later for dinner.
The pharmacist told me that our insurance will only cover 5 days at a time for the new anti-nausea medicine - I will talk with someone at Kellogg tomorrow because that is kind of nuts. I got home and got Ellie off the bus - she played DS while I put my feet up.
Mom and Nick arrived and the kids decided to play outside for a bit. Mom massaged my feet with the new lotion she bought me - so nice. We got stuff ready for dinner - I took my new anti-nausea pill and hoped for the best. Rob got home in time to give Nick his bath and Dad arrived soon after. I tried to eat but everything kept getting stuck in my throat. I ended dinner with my garbage can and dry heaves. Ellie rubbed my back as I sat over the garbage can - I hate this. I also hate that Nick says Mama doesn't feel good. I pretty much hate it all today - I know this has a point but I truly feel icky. After dinner I escaped to the bathtub for a little while and soaked in the peace and soaked out the tears - pity party for one please. Maybe its time for the anti-depressant - that is one pill I don't have yet.
Dad made me some mint tea - the kids played with Mom and Dad, Rob did the dishes and I sat on the couch. I kind of feel like its garbage can time soon - visualising my health body, Tree
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
And on Day 7 the side effect begin
WARNING - this post isn't pretty - side effects began today and I will describe all of them.
Rob and I got the kids to sleep and tried to watch a horrible video - we ended up flipping between the Hawks game and Tori & Dean. We were both pooped and headed up after the game - I forgot to take my ativan and that became very apparent when I was still awake at 10:30, 12:05, 2:15 and 4:17. I should have just went downstairs and took it but I was seeing if I could fall asleep without it - no luck. Nick woke up a couple times - confused that he was in his bed at home and not in Michigan. Ahhhh.
We were all up early and I had this really gross feeling in my stomach - without any medication. Today started with the diarrhea side effect - so I took a pill. While eating my waffles I noticed they tasted like sandpaper would. Funky tummy. I took my morning xeloda and immediately knew it was going to be that kind of day. I took a compazine very soon after. Nick and I headed to Mom's house. I had a cup of tea thinking that might solve the un-easy tummy but no such luck. I ended up with dry heaves - completely unsatisfying.
We finally headed off to the hospital for radiation. I still felt gross - they actually gave me a bucket for radiation. Another pesky side effect I am having (that I haven't ever had in my life) are bleeding hemorrhoids and because of the radiation I was told not to apply anything to them - ahhhh. I saw a nurse about them today because they truly are painful. She said I could take a bath or a sitz bath a couple times a day and pick up some suppositories with cortisone (not sure how that is going to help out).
Mom pulled around and got me and then we went back to her house - I was out of energy today. I was freezing cold today - even with 2 blankets on I could not warm up. Mom truly tried to make me better today - everything from rubbing my back as I kneeled in front of the toilet to asking what she could make me to eat/drink and taking care of Nick so I could sleep.
Nothing sounded appealing today - no food no drink. Mom made me a good old fashioned grilled cheese and cut a peach and some ginger ale. I was able to keep it down.
Nick and I came home to get Ellie and they have both tried to be good while I relaxed on the couch and took a bath. Another bizarre thing today is a hot mouth - I feel like my mouth is burning up - ice water, ice sherbet, ice - I tried everything to relieve it. As I sat down to write this I got an overwhelming feeling of vomiting again. Dry heaves again - this stinks. I am now walking garbage can in tow. I am now one week down - 4 (and a bit to go) - I am hoping this gets better - I didn't have these kind of symptoms while pregnant. I returned a message Margaret left me last week asking how things were going and we played phone tag - basically unless I become dehydrated I don't need to be alarmed. Visualizing my healthy body, my eased tummy and just plain old wellness, Tree
Rob and I got the kids to sleep and tried to watch a horrible video - we ended up flipping between the Hawks game and Tori & Dean. We were both pooped and headed up after the game - I forgot to take my ativan and that became very apparent when I was still awake at 10:30, 12:05, 2:15 and 4:17. I should have just went downstairs and took it but I was seeing if I could fall asleep without it - no luck. Nick woke up a couple times - confused that he was in his bed at home and not in Michigan. Ahhhh.
We were all up early and I had this really gross feeling in my stomach - without any medication. Today started with the diarrhea side effect - so I took a pill. While eating my waffles I noticed they tasted like sandpaper would. Funky tummy. I took my morning xeloda and immediately knew it was going to be that kind of day. I took a compazine very soon after. Nick and I headed to Mom's house. I had a cup of tea thinking that might solve the un-easy tummy but no such luck. I ended up with dry heaves - completely unsatisfying.
We finally headed off to the hospital for radiation. I still felt gross - they actually gave me a bucket for radiation. Another pesky side effect I am having (that I haven't ever had in my life) are bleeding hemorrhoids and because of the radiation I was told not to apply anything to them - ahhhh. I saw a nurse about them today because they truly are painful. She said I could take a bath or a sitz bath a couple times a day and pick up some suppositories with cortisone (not sure how that is going to help out).
Mom pulled around and got me and then we went back to her house - I was out of energy today. I was freezing cold today - even with 2 blankets on I could not warm up. Mom truly tried to make me better today - everything from rubbing my back as I kneeled in front of the toilet to asking what she could make me to eat/drink and taking care of Nick so I could sleep.
Nothing sounded appealing today - no food no drink. Mom made me a good old fashioned grilled cheese and cut a peach and some ginger ale. I was able to keep it down.
Nick and I came home to get Ellie and they have both tried to be good while I relaxed on the couch and took a bath. Another bizarre thing today is a hot mouth - I feel like my mouth is burning up - ice water, ice sherbet, ice - I tried everything to relieve it. As I sat down to write this I got an overwhelming feeling of vomiting again. Dry heaves again - this stinks. I am now walking garbage can in tow. I am now one week down - 4 (and a bit to go) - I am hoping this gets better - I didn't have these kind of symptoms while pregnant. I returned a message Margaret left me last week asking how things were going and we played phone tag - basically unless I become dehydrated I don't need to be alarmed. Visualizing my healthy body, my eased tummy and just plain old wellness, Tree
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