CHEMO UPDATE

As is obvious, it has been a while since I have written.  Things went fine with my last chemo treatment on December 12.  Having the port worked well, and now that it is completely healed, it will be even better.  Having the two chemo drugs was definitely a harder hit than one.  It took me about a week to feel back to normal, but I was not really miserable – just weak and a little queasy – enough not to want to do anything.  I sometimes wonder if it is just an excuse to be lazy.

Anyway, the inevitable happened.  My hair had grown in to the point where I could almost go out without my wig, but on December 28, Daryl’s birthday, it started to come out again.  I decided I would go out a couple of days with just my hair which felt really good, but by three weeks from my chemo treatment, my hair was all gone.  My daughter, Gayla, used her clippers to clean up the little that was left.  I had done it before, so it was not too traumatic.

I am scheduled for chemo tomorrow, January 9, but my brother, Byron, passed away in Washington, DC, so we are going back for his funeral.  He was 90 and not doing well, so we are grateful he could go without having to move to a care center.  He is the one for whom I did the book on his World War II journal earlier this year.  We leave on Thursday and return next Tuesday, then I will be right back into chemo on Wednesday, January 16.   

The exciting news is that we have a new granddaughter, Molly Garn, born to Byron and Michelle on December 31 in the middle of the night.  It was a serious scare, as Michelle started bleeding and had to be taken to the hospital by ambulance.  She had a C-section, and all is well that ends well.  We are hoping that Molly keeps her dark hair – more than any other Garn babies we have seen.

To all of you who check this blog more often than I post, I apologize and appreciate your continued interest.  You are the best. 


We hope you are all having a great beginning to 2013.