Good start - we got our muffin, Starbucks and water - MD Anderson didn't have the right muffin, the Starbucks came out of one of those gas station cappuccino makers (not good).....from moment one this morning it was nice to be home.
Good day. The hospital was almost on time, but the delay didn't seem to bother either of us. We were busy watching the jets practice for the air and water show. I swear I thought the planes were going to come straight through the building.
We were finally called in for chemo (all of the blood work was fine) and I reminded them that I had a treatment while in Houston so today would be Taxol and Avastin. This shook them up for a moment, but then we were cruisin. Unfortunately, (for me) my normal nurse Lora (who I adore) is on vacation this week was I was unable to give her my personal run down on MD Anderson, but I will be sure to do that on the 24th.
Mom and I spent our time reading three different clinical trial studies that Dr. Green said we may want to consider in the future. OK... so for those of you who can't find the humor in cancer you will not want to read this part........Mom and I were laughing pretty hard about some of the side effects listed...to name a few...
Coma (Mom's biggest laugh), Spinal Breakage (my biggest laugh), a New Cancer, Heart Attack, Bleeding, Opening of Healed Wounds (think this one could really mess with me if it wanted to). It felt really good to laugh so hard about something so serious, but it felt even better to be laughing about it with my Mom. I know how tough this is on my parents so it is truly a gift to me when one of them really laughs.
It may seem odd to laugh about this sort of stuff, but when you are living it all you can do is look at everything presented to you and say is this really my life?
Then think to yourself, clinical trials in the future YES - I WILL EMBRACE YOU AND ALL OF YOUR potential bleeding, coma, heart attack, new cancer, burning, skin rash, shedding skin and spinal breakage side effects if it means you will give me more time with the people that I love.
Once treatment was over we headed back to the burbs for a little lunch (ya should always stop for a little lunch and chatting) in La Grange. We went to Grapevine along the tracks and I must say I had a lovely salad and turkey sandwich on multi grain bread with roasted peppers, Swiss, arugula, tomatoes that I would highly recommend. We chatted for a good while and then I went home and zoned out in front of the television.
Today was a good day, but of course it's now 2:06AM, I took an Ambien CR at 9:30PM (clearly they aren't working their magic anymore) and I am still wide awake. So today was good.......tomorrow not so much!
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