Things are starting to pick up from here.
Ali seems to be over the worst of the nausea and she is still tired but doesn't need to sleep all day. Although she certainly would if she could and she is far from feeling 'normal'.
She didn't have a good night sleep on Thursday but that was because of cats and possums rather than anything specifically to do with the chemotherapy. I'm still not 100% so I had been shunted off to the spare room which meant that I didn't hear any of the late night commotions and had a great night's sleep.
Big soccer gala day for Harrison this weekend, last games for this year. Annelise gets registered for Little Athletics; we'll see if that can take some of the edge off her seemingly boundless energy levels.
Take care everyone and go the Wallabies! (Harry & I are very glad we don't have to wake up in the early hours of the morning to watch Saturday night's Test match.)
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Monday, September 8, 2008
Chemo 3: Day 0
Here we are again - CHEMO DAY.
Seems to come around so quickly, must be even more so for Ali.
Everything went well today.
Alison's white blood cell count was fine and she received her treatment as planned. Much better than the previous time when we had to wait a few days. Unfortunately I didn't get to go in with her today as I have been home ill since last Friday and it's not a good idea to share germs with a room full of people with depleted immune systems.
Anyway, after the treatment Ali arrived home shortly before 4pm and had the house to herself for a while as I took the kids off so Annelise could do her gymnastics. She was snoozing on the lounge when we got home with bags of toxic Maccas for the kids (even they know it's not good for them, "...but it tastes so nice" they say, where did I fail?)
Ali managed to stay up for a very tasty penne dish but was head down again by 7pm. She's nauseous tonight (not due to the dinner) and her head feels a mess. Hopefully it will improve through the night.
We have now officially made the halfway mark of the treatment.
Typically, the negative effects are supposed to get stronger as the chemo wears on. Let's just hope this doesn't happen so much in this case.
So there you have it, all the latest news. I guess it's kind of a long way of simply saying she had her medication came home and slept. (Just think, if I'd put that sentence first, there would have been no need to write the rest.)
Seems to come around so quickly, must be even more so for Ali.
Everything went well today.
Alison's white blood cell count was fine and she received her treatment as planned. Much better than the previous time when we had to wait a few days. Unfortunately I didn't get to go in with her today as I have been home ill since last Friday and it's not a good idea to share germs with a room full of people with depleted immune systems.
Anyway, after the treatment Ali arrived home shortly before 4pm and had the house to herself for a while as I took the kids off so Annelise could do her gymnastics. She was snoozing on the lounge when we got home with bags of toxic Maccas for the kids (even they know it's not good for them, "...but it tastes so nice" they say, where did I fail?)
Ali managed to stay up for a very tasty penne dish but was head down again by 7pm. She's nauseous tonight (not due to the dinner) and her head feels a mess. Hopefully it will improve through the night.
We have now officially made the halfway mark of the treatment.
Typically, the negative effects are supposed to get stronger as the chemo wears on. Let's just hope this doesn't happen so much in this case.
So there you have it, all the latest news. I guess it's kind of a long way of simply saying she had her medication came home and slept. (Just think, if I'd put that sentence first, there would have been no need to write the rest.)
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