Well, we took Geli into a BC Biomedical Lab to get her blood work done today. The results from the panel done today determine whether she waits a week to start the second half of this stage of chemo or whether she moves forward as planned.
I’m not really certain which one I’m rooting for more. Am I hoping that the results are great so that she can carry on and hopefully we get to finish this journey sooner rather than later OOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRR……..am I hoping that her counts are just a little low so that she gets an extra week to “recover and rest” before we head back into it all.
Both options have their benefits and yet this all sucks.
Jon woke her up this morning to take her to the lab and she ended up “rushing a bit” and “pushing herself” and that resulted in her barfing up her meds….HER VERY EXPENSIVE MEDS that she just flushed down the toilet this morning. SUCKS! But, she did manage to get the meds into her system eventually and then they headed up to the lab.
Well, we got the phone call with her results and her counts look great. They are almost up to the low end of normal.
And so….we carry on.
I’m a bit concerned that she’s still barfing, and that she still sometimes feels “off” even while on a triple med cocktail. She is slowly eating more and so…and so…..and so we carry on.
This is such a crazy brutal journey. I had no idea what people who had/have cancer go through and I know that every journey is different and that each person responds to treatment differently, but this is brutal. To watch your child go through this process is horrible. I want to make this all go away for her and I can’t. She has to walk through this and we get to walk along side of her and pray for her to have the strength to carry on and then we carry her when she is too weak, but we keep on moving forward. One day this will all be a distant memory……