Chemo

Hello everyone, this is Morry. This is the 366th post we've done. So basically, we're starting a brand new year of blogging.

Today was Rachel's first day of chemo. It was scheduled for 8:45 but we had to go in early and fill out paper work. Grandma/Lynn is in town to help out and she was going to take care of the boys today. Evan got up after I was done with my shower so I was able to get him breakfast and set up watching a movie before we left. We left around 7:40am and Grandma was done with Evan when we left.

We got to the oncologist's office exactly on time at 8:15am. We both brought out computers; Rachel brought hers to watch movies and browse the web and I brought mine to do work. I dropped Rachel off and drove over to HEB and got her two movies from RedBox. I returned to the office around 8:35 and Rachel was waiting in a patient room to meet with the doctor. The doctor finally came in around 9am and talked to us some.

Finally, by about 9:30 we made it to the room where they administer the chemo. It was an open room with lots of lounge chairs set up in rows. It's a corner room and there were lots of windows so it was fairly bright. They had Rachel pick a chair near the nurses' station so they could watch her more closely. I pulled up a chair next to her and got a tv tray and set up to do some work. First, Rachel had to fill out some paperwork including agreeing to the treatment. Then they started giving her steroids and some anti-nausea stuff through her port. That took some time. Then they had to wait an hour from that before they could start chemo. Some time close to noon, she finally started getting the chemo. Luckily, Rachel had no allergic reactions or any of the initial side effects that they warn about. By no means is she out of the woods, but the actual administering of the chemo went flawlessly.

For lunch, I ran out and picked up some sandwiches for us at a place called the Little Deli.

Around 4pm she was done with everything. We packed up and had to schedule her upcoming chemo appointments.

On the way home, we stopped at HEB to pick up medication that she'll need to make sure she feels well.

Meanwhile, Evan went to school today. He wore his Halloween costume because they were having a party at school. We sent him with an extra set of clothes. Grandma took Noah to HEB and got food for us for dinner. After that, Grandma got Noah dressed up in his Halloween costume and went over to Evan's school for the party. When she got there, though, all the kids were out of their costume by that point. So they took Noah out of his costume. Noah is wearing Evan's Buzz Lightyear costume from last year. He seems to love it. He kept saying his version of "To Infinity and Beyond".

For dinner, Grandma made us chicken, squash and rice. It was very good. It was very nice of her to make the dinner.

After dinner, Rachel told us she was tired of having been cooped up all day. So we went for a walk. Can you believe Rachel wanted to go for a walk right after chemo? Amazing.

The boys are now in bed but are nowhere near quiet.

Until next time...