Friday, Feb 14th, 2020……
I got up early and got monster puppy out for her walk. Sis was already
out in the field with Quincy. When we got back, I let her out to run with Q and
came in and got the towel ready. Once she gets rinsed off and dried, I can feed
her. Then I made my breakfast and worked on my part of last year’s medical for
the tax lady. Lydia has to help me with
her part so I will have to wait on that. Lydia said that they most likely will
not release her until closer to noon, so I hung around and cleaned up the house
a bit. They said she will need to have a bathroom exclusively for her use for 3
days (as she cleans out the chemo meds and toxins), so I moved my stuff over to
the guest bathroom and got everything ready for her to use the master.
I left at
noon and headed over and picked up my sister and we got to the hospital at 12:45
and she was dressed and ready.
She has a
list of things to do (and not to do), things to eat, and things to do in the
next week or so. She will need to make an appointment for the next round
beginning in March but she can’t do that until she sees the oncologist on the 20th.
We got her back home and set up in her chair. She spent the day there and
watched tv and caught up on some of our taped shows that I already watched. I
fixed her some vegetable soup and crackers and she ate that. A good sign! We both went to bed pretty early.
Saturday, Feb 15th, 2020…… She didn’t have a good night. Most
of the meds have kicked in and all of them cause diarrhea, so she was up every hour.
Going to the bathroom is really hard, especially now because she is severely
bloated from the chemicals and the fluids she was on. It makes it very hard to
even bend over or lift her legs so I have to help her change her disposable
undies each time. So, neither of us had a good restful sleep. She stayed in bed
to be closer to the bathroom. But we did have to go into the Lebanon Hospital
Infusion Center this morning at 9:30. She was getting a shot of white blood
cells. I got her in the car and we made it there and back but it wore her out.
Then it was back to bed and more diarrhea. I went out and got KFC for dinner but she
barely ate.
Sunday, Feb 16th, 2020……
Last night was even worse for both
of us. Same routine but she has lost so much strength and stamina that
everything is hard. Today was another trip to the Infusion Center. This time
(and each third day) was for a blood draw. They do this at the center because they
use the port to draw the labs. On the way to the car she asked to sit down and luckily,
we were next to the dining room chairs. But she missed and fell – but as luck
would have it – right down on Rylee’s big padded doggie bed! So no harm. But I knew something was wrong.
We got to the infusion center and I told them I was taking her over next door
to the er and they thought, given what they could see – was a good idea. They
made a report and sent it ahead so she was taken to a bed in the er pretty
quickly. The doctors read her history and did the requisite lab tests.
Everything was ok but they said is was up to us whether she went home or was
admitted. She made that call before I could – I can’t move about on my own
right now so I need help. Admit me! It took another hour or so before she could
get a room and get set up in it. I left and stopped and got dinner and came
back home and was in for the night. I will be going in early tomorrow to bring
her phone and some clean clothes and we’ll see what last night brought us.
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