Getting Ready for Round Two

Cheryl has had a good day today. A friend of ours gave her a ride to church this morning. Since today was Homecoming, she got to see even more folks than usual. She ate a good plateful of Southern Baptist church social food including dessert and then we came on home. She's been watching football all afternoon and to hear her cheering and coaching from the couch, you wouldn't even know that she was sick. She was saddened that her favorite Manning lost to Jacksonville.

Cheryl had taken a dose of liquid steroids on Thursday night and Friday morning in anticipation of getting chemo on Friday morning. Since they've now got her on the schedule for tomorrow morning, she has to take the same dosage again tonight and tomorrow morning. We're stocked up on the anti-nausea drugs and are praying that they work well this coming week.

We did her left PleurX drain this afternoon (had football on to distract her from the pain) and only pulled off 25cc. We will probably drain her one more time and then make an appointment with the pulmonologist to have both drains removed. I'm sure that not having two large patches on her sides will be quite a relief. The IV/IP ports still are a bit sensitive but there is nothing we can do about them since they are going to be in place for months to come.

We've decided to go ahead and post my haircut as well. Folks at work and church have done double takes and most have said that it takes ten years off my looks. This morning I asked the congregation why they hadn't told me how bad my hair looked before if they think this style looks so much better on me.

I will try to do an update every evening this week. Be praying that Cheryl will have no negative reaction to any of the next set of chemo drugs and that we will be able to control her nausea.