Its still dark but I have my tea...

Good Morning all,

It is early here...530 am to be precise.  But as the title says, I have my tea so I'm ready to go.  Well at least long enough to write this blog and then snuggle back down into bed for an hour or two.

It's hard to sleep in the hospital as most of you well know.  The nurses take vitals every four hours but it seems that my body wants rid of the drug throughout the night so I seem to be up every hour or two as well.  Despite that, I think I'm getting some sleep or I'm delusional....I'm going with the sleep.

Yesterday was the most difficult day by far.  The cyclophosamide hit me hard.  I ended up with about 11 hours of nausea even though I had three to four anti-nauseants on board at all times.  What was worse was the bizarre mouth, jaw, neck and arm pain.  It all hurt and I couldn't find a comfortable spot to lay in but when I did move, my stomach regretted it.  I finally gave into getting morphine after trying codeine and it did work thankfully.  The nausea finally passed for good at 11 p.m. last night and by 12am vitals, I was feeling pretty good.

Poor David, I could see the strain it was taking on him.  He only left me to find a washroom and the occasional cup of tea.  He feels helpless for me and I feel helpless for him.  Bless Veronica's heart (our personal care attendant), she always leaves him a plate of food and a cup of tea.  It is a huge relief to me that he is at least getting some healthy food.

Today is AGT, a serum from rabbits.  I saw the premed allergy protocol and laughed.  Not enough steroids for me in there!

On the good side, the nutritionist saw me yesterday and here is my instructions: if you have to choose between an apple and apple pie, pick the pie, substitute juice, milk,ice cream milkshakes instead of water.....make every calorie count!  Uhm...OK:-)

Will get some pics of my staff later today.

Hugs all around
E