Tuesday, Apr 21st, 2020…… This morning we decided to have
omelets for breakfast. I wanted to try out our new copper pans so we used the
smaller one for Lydia’s and the larger one for mine. Lydia helped with the
‘fixins’. Everything turned out super good!
Today is
the last of the sunny weather. We are supposed to get rain tomorrow and also
into next week. I wanted to go out and get the patio furniture from the garage
and get it put back out, but Kirk texted me and needed my help. He has now
bought a second truck for his lawn business and this one has a tonneau cover
that needed some love. So, I helped him get it fixed and operational again. By
the time he left, I didn’t feel like going out to move furniture.
Lydia had
two appointments today. Dominique for PT and Jeremy for her health check. Since
she is doing very well, this would be the last scheduled health check. OT and
PT will continue. We are still working on trying to get copays lowered for both
of her next round meds. What a joke! Meanwhile, we continue to wait. I helped
Lydia get everything together for bean soup for dinner. She had me soak the
beans last night and the pot was now ready and on the stove. She sat at the kitchen table and cut up all
of the veggies. When I was outside with Kirk, my sister had come by and she was
drafted into cutting up the leftover ham into chunks and getting them into the
pot. I got back in and dumped in the rest of the goodies and kept an eye on
them for the rest of the afternoon. Later, I baked some flaky biscuits and we
had a nice meal.
Wednesday, Apr 22nd, 2020…… Rains came as predicted. I waited
until there was a slight break and then took Rylee out for our walk. She sure
enjoys getting out and doesn’t care what the weather is like! She found some
good smells down in the ditches on both sides of our street. Of course, she
needed to be hosed off after romping through the water down there! We got back
inside and found Grammy was still sleeping. I fed butthead and fixed myself
some coffee. Later, I took off and got my
breakfast and came back and made Lydia some waffles for her breakfast. She hung
around the bedroom and relaxed until it was time to get dressed and go to
dialysis. Once I dropped her off, I headed back home. Not much to do today in
the rain so I did some rearranging for the new skillets we have now and got some
ready to take to Safe Haven/Teen Challenge to donate. I also got out the stuffed salmon to
defrost. Another project - Lydia wants
to go through her clothes. Since I have been getting her dressed each day (that
means bringing out something from the closet and holding it up and saying “is
this ok?”, or “is this what you wanted?”), she is aware of some older apparel
that she doesn’t want anymore. So, I will be bringing everything out shelf by
shelf and hanger by hanger so she can go through it all. And that’s not even
counting the stuff in her dresser! I
don’t think I want to start that today though!
I fixed
the crab-stuffed salmon and we had a nice meal. That is one of my favorite
dishes! Afterward, we watched our latest taped Blacklist, but this one turned
out to be a rerun that showcased the recently deceased Brian Dennehy, who was
prominently featured in this episode from last year. I read online that this
was a dedication to honor his memory. We also watched The Masked Singer. I had
correctly predicted the Banana, who was eliminated tonight. It was Bret
Michaels. I had a clue from the beginning but when they passed his bag through
x-ray, and I saw the bug killer and that tied it to his rock group – Poison, I
knew I had it right. We also watched the
after-show. I didn’t care for it too much and ended up fast forwarding through
for the most part. We both wished they would have just continued with
eliminations. With all of that going tonight, we passed on watching Survivor
and will save that for tomorrow.
Thursday, Apr 23rd, 2020…… Today was the next phase in
Lydia’s treatment. Even with the copay still in the air, we went ahead with the
latest infusion cancer med treatment. This was first thought to just be a
two-hour infusion, then they said it was scheduled for a six-hour period. I had
to have her there (Lebanon Community Hospital Infusion Center - this is a
section inside the hospital) by 8:00am so I got up and out with Rylee and got
breakfast made for Lydia before we left. We made it with no worries. I got her a wheelchair and got in the front
reception area where I had to hand her off to a nurse who took her back to
Infusion. I left and stopped and got coffee and headed home and fixed my
breakfast then went over to my sister’s house to help her to download some
photos from her cell phone into her laptop. Once I got back home again, I
rested for a few hours. Turns out that since Lydia had had infusions like this
before, they were able to speed up the flow rate and she was done in 4 hours.
She texted me and I picked her up just after noon. We watched our taped Survivor
episode and then I left her to her tv and then kicked back in my room. Lydia took a nap and I watched tv. Dominique was supposed to come by at 4:00pm
which was a rescheduled time to accommodate Lydia’s schedule, but she called
and was running behind and wanted to change it to tomorrow morning. That was
good for us. I had gotten soup out to
heat up and also heated the biscuits for a quick and easy dinner. Tonight was the
finale of The Great Food Truck Race so we watched that before going into our
own taped shows and then it was time for bed. So far, so good from today’s
treatment but I’ll be watching her pretty closely for the next few days….
Friday, Apr 24th, 2020……
Another rainy day. Lydia has started having one of the chemo symptoms
she didn’t want – diarrhea! It started early this morning. She can navigate herself to the bathroom
potty so she doesn’t need my help anymore. But she’s worried about the 3 ¼
hours she has to sit in the dialysis chair this afternoon. If she has to unhook
for any reason, that’s it – they have to terminate the session. Hopefully, it
will go ok. Dominique was here at 9:00am for Lydia’s PT which went well. As for me, I spent the morning cleaning the
house up a bit. I vacuumed and dusted. Just call me Suzy Homemaker! Later, I took her over to Albany and dropped
her off and then came home and finished my cleaning and then had lunch and
rested until it was time to go back and pick her up. She said she had no issues
at dialysis but she is retaining fluids again in her lower legs. This is from
the infusion fluid. But she is feeling ok so far. I wasn’t sure how hungry she
would be so I didn’t get anything out for dinner. So, we headed off, on the way
home, to Los Dos Arbolitos for takeout. We ate and I found out later that I
forgot to put all of the stuff back in place when I vacuumed in the bedroom
when Lydia went in to go watch tv and put her feet up! I got her set up and
went back to my office to watch tv and relax until bedtime.
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