Third Day

Well, the anti-nausea meds seems to be working. Today was the first day Linda kept everything down. But (there's always a but) the anti-nausea meds cause so much drowsiness that she's barely able to stay awake. Virginia, the Nurse Practioner from Boston actually called us today when she heard from Dr. Glotzbecker about our problems yesterday. Between her conversation and a later call we made to the on call Oncologist, we decided to cut back a little on the Ativan and see if we can keep her awake tomorrow. You can't imagine how relieved I was to actually see her eating something for the first time in three days (thanks for the soup, Wan).

Breathing is becoming a problem again. With so much sleep and so little movement, her lungs aren't getting much exertion. Once she gets some strength back and starts moving around more, I'm hopeful this problem goes away.

It's hard to believe we are actually going back on Monday to start the second round on Tuesday. Virginia told us to call on Monday morning to let them know how Linda was doing, and they could always move it back a bit. I guess we'll see how the weekend goes.

Two new blog developments--I've fixed the time stamp at the bottom of the post, which was driving me crazy, and more importantly, I think I've fixed the comment option so you don't have to sign-up first to make a comment--I know that was driving some of you crazy. Let me know if I was successful.

Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers,

Linda and Jim