Cheryl finally got to feeling close to normal late Saturday afternoon. The nausea and exhaustion that she experiences really keeps her from doing much of anything. It seems that it takes her a bit longer each time to bounce back from her Tuesday round of Cisplatin but we are encouraged that she only has one more of these to go through the week after Christmas.
On Friday evening, I was wrapping gifts for our church Christmas party and she got a little teary eyed over having to miss out on gift shopping, doing special wrappings and all of the usual holiday festivities. We hope to have her back up to full speed for next Christmas.
We drained Cheryl's PleurX catheter this evening and only withdrew about 5cc of fluid. We hope that the pulmonologist will decide to go ahead and remove the catheter when she sees him this week. We also have to meet with a new oncologist this week since Dr. Burke will no longer be managing chemotherapy so he can focus on surgery and follow-up.
We are thankful for all of your prayers, calls and notes of encouragement. Please be in prayer this week that she will bounce back quickly from tomorrow's chemotherapy of IV Taxol and that she will be able to enjoy a quiet Christmas here with me.
I always look forward to getting all the good news in these updates. God is truly so good. We continue to thank Him for all He's done and pray for complete healing. He is able! :-)
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