Monday

Beautiful day, love it. We headed up North to Jason and Katie's cabin. The girls enjoyed themselves...lot of buts though. I had several nose bleeds and pretty much sat and rested or fell asleep. I was not the best company! I had several moments of panic with so much chest pressure and being far away from any medical help. Isn't that strange? I'm 39 and I was having moments of health related panic.

As I type wisps of hair swirl around me...

The joy of this is that the girls live in the moment. God gives us this moment and we should live in it...and I love it that Hailey and Avery do! A good lesson.

Love you all...

Update

The treatment went fine. The red counts are begining to get lower but in a range that the treaments could be given.

I had lots of visitors today: my brother Jason brought me- love him! JoAnn(wonderful chaplin friend)came Shari the sunshine friend and Heidi the sweet- you look so good girl! It made the time fly by.

I am resting today- my chest is so heavy but my skin is less yellow today so that must be good.
I get next week off from treatments- meet with the local oncologist and have blood tests and such then start again with the same course of treatment the following week on Tuesday again.

Love to all-
traci

Thursday

I rested primarily today. I'm fighting a cold so I'm trying to rest as much as I can. Not much energy but I feel like I'm doing well over all.

I head back in for treatment in a couple of hours. Had a nose bleed and other bleeding today- kind of strange...I'll find out what the white counts are first and then will know if they have to adjust the treatment level.

Jo Ann the fabulous chaplain is coming up with Amy, Rose and hopefully Suzanne and Judy to pray and chat during the treatment. That will make the time go more quickly. It will be shorter today as I don't have to have one of the drugs they gave me last week today. It's a different mix.

I'm having to really keep up on the anti-nausea pills but at they really do help.

I'll let you know how it goes today.

Traci

Thursday

I'm feeling it...whooo. I had a shower and feel a bit better. Joe's been helping me to remember to take the nausia pills...they really help.

I really feel like a baby wrapped in blankets held in the arms of mommy. That is the truth. It is because of you all and your prayers and support...God is so real.

The first round is complete. I didn't get much sleep lots of tossing and turning. The girls are just off to school so I got up with them and sat out in the kitchen while they had breakfast. They were very happy to see me and I was VERY happy to hug them before they went to school.

I have lots of chest pressure and discomfort this morning...so I very thankful to be on this stuff. They said as each day goes by the white counts go down...so to rest as much as possible along with taking a slow walk.

This is interesting, yesterday before the treatment began the social worker said we need to draw another 11- viles of blood before treatment begins- I'm glad you have a port. I then said I don't have a port- I had it taken out last year- thinking I wouldn't need it again...so she wanted to get me set up to have another put in right away but I mentioned- or have it place during one of the off-weeks from one of the chemos...but I insisted they call mayo first. They did and Mayo said absolutely NOT. It would delay treatment by 6 weeks. As one of the dugs in the cocktail destroys nearly all the white cells...thank God they got the scoop from Mayo!

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