Tuesday, Feb 11th, 2020……
Great night’s sleep last night. Not so much for Lydia. This is day 3 of
her treatment. They have upped her prednisone from 5 mg to 50 mg, so she’s
pretty wired and can’t sleep. And she is hungry! As anyone who has ever taken prednisone
knows, it will cause your blood sugars to rise, so she’s “all jacked up on
Mountain Dew” – a serious sugar rush! They monitor her blood sugars and have
her on a diabetic and renal diet until they can lower the prednisone dosage.
But she’s managed to find enough food on the menu to change it up a bit each
meal and find something she likes. Today’s lunch was a stuffed mushroom, which
looked pretty good even to me. All in all, she’s doing just great and looks
good!
The
oncologist says that based on the pet scan results, she will need 6 total
rounds of chemo. The plan for now is to finish up round one of the chemo by
late Thursday night, which means if everything is where they want it, she can
come home on Friday morning. Then it will be 21 days at home and then they will
repeat the process - she will check back into the hospital, get a room, and do
another 5 days of chem through the port and be monitored like just like round
1. She will also go for a spinal tap on rounds 2 and 6 to make sure the brain
is clear of any issues (none so far). No talks yet about the radiation, but
that is most likely to be way out in phase 2.
As is the
routine, I left her to rest and watch her tv, and I came home and ate dinner
and fed and walked Rylee again and settled in for the night.
Wednesday, Feb 12th, 2020…… Today was busy for me. I had an
early dental appointment this morning (at 8:30am) so I walked and fed Rylee and
ate breakfast. Sis had brought Quincy over and left her here for the day. I
made it to the dental appointment and got that done. Just a cleaning. I told
them we now have dental insurance and may be moving on for the future. They
wanted to keep us as patients and even called our insurance and checked and
found that no, they couldn’t get authorized by my plan even though I was an
existing patient here. We would both have to go through the approved network
dentists. I have decided to keep going there until I have something other than
a cleaning or simple procedure. Lydia has only been once but she’s had an
experience in California with a ‘plan’ dentist who she did not like so she will
stay with Dr. Tolman/Amanda as well. I told them about Lydia and said she may
have to cancel her 2/26 appointment with them but for now she plans on coming
in as scheduled.
I called
Lydia after I was done at the dentist and asked if she needed me to bring her
anything and got her list and gathered up everything and headed out. This was day 4 of 5. I spent as much time
there as I could before I had to leave for my next scheduled appointment (@2:20pm)
- for my annual bone scan. With my osteoporosis, I am on one infusion a year,
which is prefaced by this scan. I timed it so I could leave the hospital in
Corvallis and drop in at the eyecare place in Albany to pick up the remake on
my new sunglasses. Looks like they got it right this time. I left there and made
it to the Imaging Center at the Lebanon hospital and checked in and got my
wristband. The whole process there took less than ½ hour and I was on my way
home. Sis was at bingo and had a rider (Lois) with her today. She got her back
home ok and then came over later and picked up Quincy and they left for home. I
fixed dinner and Rylee and I played a bit and I settled in and watched tv until
bedtime.
Thursday, Feb 13th, 2020……
Today I had another appointment.
This one was for our taxes. I had already gathered everything up and was ready
for today. Sis had called and asked if I wanted to go to Kevin’s to have
breakfast. Duuh! I called and checked in
to ask how Lydia was doing and then headed up to visit her for the morning and
until I had to go for my appointment. They still have her on her high-dose
prednisone so she’s still on a restricted diet. But other than having to have
her blood sugars tested and getting a shot as necessary, she is doing
remarkably well for day 5. She’s been going to the bathroom unassisted now but
they don’t want her doing that. ‘Hey, if they don’t get here right after I
buzz, I have to get in there somehow!” Penny
drove herself and we met at the hospital and she visited with her and then left
to run her errands today. I left for my 2:00pm tax appointment. Turns out the
appointment was for 10:00am! I’m not
sure how I came to write down 2:00pm but I did!
Claudine was just finishing up her last appointment and I got in. I have
an easy return and, because we didn’t have enough for medical last year, I didn’t
do any of those totals. She said she still needs it for state credits so I will
have to get those numbers together and back to her. Since I didn’t have lunch, I
stopped and got subway for linner and had that and then fed butthead. We
settled in for the evening and I watched tv in my office. I have gotten so used
to hearing Lydia’s tv on in the living room that I started turning it on each
evening. But only one more day before she comes home!
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