I’m tired. <\/p>\n
I’ve started exercising again and while I know in my head, that in just a very short time, I will have more energy….at this exact moment I’m SO tired!<\/p>\n
My legs hurt. My stomach hurts. My shoulders hurt. Stupid muscles in my neck that i didn’t even know that I had hurt! I hurt!<\/p>\n
I know that the end result will be a definite gain in my life, but for the immediate…I’m tired!<\/p>\n
Other than that, I’m doing well…..so enough about me.<\/p>\n
Angelica has done 2 out of the 4 doses of chemo for this week. She went in yesterday and based on how well she seemed on Monday with her friends, we were expecting a short in and out. She had an LP and after that she needs to lay down for about a hour, but they could give her the chemo and so while her appointment was for 8:30am, I expected them home before noon.<\/p>\n
The whole morning just kind of went screwy. The traffic was BRUTAL and it took them over an hour and a half to get in. Then is took a bit for her to get in for the LP. While she was sleeping off the sedative, Jon got the results of the blood work and her Hemoglobin was at a 72. This was a fair drop from the 95 that it was on Friday. Typically around a 70, Geli has higher blood pressure, a faster heart rate, feels like she just cannot catch her breath, has a hard time moving around and definitely has trouble going up or down stairs. Aside from her heart rate being slightly elevated, she was doing fine, but….seeing as her counts are just heading down, down, DOWN…. They ordered a transfusion and there began one of the LONG clinic days. The blood didn’t even get to the clinic until after 1pm and they didn’t get her hooked up until 1:30pm. It takes about 3 hours for the blood to run and so they didn’t even leave the clinic until 5:30pm and then there was the hours drive home. <\/p>\n
If we are prepared for a long day it’s less stressful than when we are kind of blindsided with it.<\/p>\n
All of her counts are headed south. There is a good chance that she will have low to NO infection fighting ability for most of the next 3 weeks. This is a bit scarey and I’m asking for prayer to really cover Geli and us during this time. <\/p>\n
Obviously, we can handle anything that we have to…including a long hospital stay, but we don’t want to have to.<\/p>\n
We’d just like for Angelica to stay healthy and strong.<\/p>\n
There is a good chance that she’ll need another transfusion either Friday or Tuesday and she’ll most definitely need platelets before she gets the intramuscular shots on Tuesday. It looks like we’re in for a few long clinic days over the next little while.<\/p>\n
We’re looking at the finish end and just needing the strength to stay strong until this “intensive” phase of treatment is over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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