Round one - I win!

So today was the 4th and last day of my first round of chemo. I am still walking and talking and doing pretty well, so I think I won this one. I had peaks and valleys during the day, but the low spots were mainly fatigue and jitteryness from the steroids I think. A little stomach queeziness but nothing I could not handle. If fact, I even came home and cooked dinner (if you call baking fish and cooking veggies and potatoes in the microwave cooking). My neck is still a little sore from the clot (which Bob now gives a a shot every day) but I am finding pain pills can do magical things when you need them.

While no more chemo until Feb 26 there is a lot of time I have to be at the Clinic off and on. Evidently, one of the best ways to have an easier chemo is to stay hydrated and with the heavy doses of chemo I am getting, that is critical. I am going to go in tomorrow and get 2 liters of fluid which will take 3 hours. They will also send a home health nurse out over the weekend to give me IV fluids at home. If I am still feeing decent Monday morning, I go to Emory have a PET scan on the two inflamed lymph nodes to see what that is about, and then go to the clinic to run some blood test to see what all the various levels are doing -- I assume iron, potassium, white count etc. I know a few days after the chemo can be the roughest time, so I am braced for it but determined not to let it do me in. Sister Cindy is coming to help Bob manage me for a few days, and Sydney will also be here some over the weekend, so I know I will be in good hands. And hopefully, it will give Bob a break. Before last week, he could not find Publix without the aid of Mapquest, and now he knows where things are and on which isles. He does not know them quite as well as Home Depot, but he is getting there.

Thank you all for your amazing love, support and prayers! They are really helping me get through all this.