klashville and gossg and I made fajitas for dinner last night to celebrate her last night with us (she flew home this morning). It's something we haven't done for a long long time but we remembered how and had a wonderful dinner. Well, it was wonderful until the toaster oven started to shoot flames out of it. Greg had put some taco shells in the toaster oven and ( Read more... )

It's Saturday and I hadn't planned to be up this early but here I am.... I am downstairs in the living room curled up in my chair with the fireplace going. It snowed here over the last 2 days so everything outside is white and bright. I was bored laying there in bed so I decided to go see what CJ was doing and then CJ and I woke up klashville who is here ( Read more... )

I gave myself an injection this morning for the very first time. I didn't feel anything at the time but about 5 minutes later I felt like I was going to throw up... although I didn't ( Read more... )

While I was in the hospital this last time, I had a meeting with Greg, Dr. Chu, and my mother. Dr. Chu had told me all along that she was hesitant to operate on the cancer because of the condition of the tumor. Since I underwent radiation with the original cancer, the tumor, bowel, and other tissues are glued together and it would be impossible ( Read more... )

I'm home... again ( Read more... )

I'm home again from the hospital. Greg and Kelli are in the kitchen laying out the nibblies for the open house we're having later today and I'm here in my chair in the living room trying to drink as much water as possible so that my creatinine (or however you spell it) levels will be low enough for me to have my scheduled chemo treatment tomorrow. ( Read more... )

I spent the last 2 days in bed because I wasn't feeling well enough to come downstairs. This morning it took two tries to get down here but I made it because I was determined not to give in. The chemo nurses warned that 7-10 days after treatment I would start to feel flu-like symptoms so I am going to chalk it up to that and try to get on with ( Read more... )

Today I'm rejoicing. It seems as though the ET nurses have found a system that might work for me. It's feeling very solid and stable and no leaks yet. It's a much larger plastic/rubbery wafer that lays flat on my skin so it, in theory, should be flexible enough to move with me and prevent the gaps that the rigid ones always developed. I won't know ( Read more... )

Well, it's happening. The next side effect is taking over, I've lost the ability to taste food. Last night we had Swiss Chalet and I never liked their sauce but I thought I'd try it to see what it tasted like with my diminished capacity. I still didn;t like it. This morning I took one bite of a bagel Greg so thoughtfully toasted for me and it was ( Read more... )

I had an interesting weekend. Kelli arrived late on Friday night, her flight got in after 10pm so I was already in bed when she and Greg got back from the airport. She changed into her jammies and came in to sit on the edge of my bed to talk. I begged her to rub my feet so she grabbed the lotion and did an excellent job on my feet. Ever since the ( Read more... )