Thursday, March 19, 2009

Day 3 of 3

Treatment started today at 9:30. The first few hours get my mom's body ready for chemo. Fluids, flushing kidneys, and nausea medicine. Then the chemo is dripped in. She sleeps alot. We try to get her to eat every couple of hours. She does pretty well with that. This morning I woke up at 3:30 and found her in the kitchen eating some yogurt. She is trying really hard to do what she needs to do, even though she just feels like sleeping. She walked into the doctor's office today. Would not let us just drop her off. She knows she needs to get some movement.

Her dear friends are coming to her aid. Ann stopped by last night and my mom perked up a bit. Mitzi stopped by and my mom smiled. Mitzi has agreed to be the food coordintor. Food queen is probably a better desciption. Anyone that wants to provide food can call Mitzi and she has a list of what my mom and dad can eat. She'll coordinate requests with food and timing. This is a huge, huge relief to us and such a generous contibution at this point in the process. Another organization is rallying to arrange for woman to stop by and give my dad a break and provide various things are good for my mom. Eating with her, walking with her, whatever might be the need of the day and that could change over the next few weeks. A new face from time to time will be a nice change for her.

Tomorrow she gets more blood to maintain her platelet counts. She's being very well attended to and her doctors and nurses are pillars of strength and competence.

She's getting the drugs she needs. Now we anticipate they will do their jobs to fight this disease.

All of your loving thoughts are most appreciated. The people of Granville and Newark has come to her aid and they are an army of support that is truly awesome and a force to be reckoned with. So is Norma.

A special thanks to my sister and her husband Brian for all that they have done and are doing for my mom. My dad is tired, but he's a real trooper.

xoxox

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