Catch Up

Greetings all!

Sorry it has been so long since I have posted. I realize now that my desire to "catch up" with my blog posts is the very thing that is keeping me from blogging at all. Therefore I will do a quick catch up so that I can be current.

After daddy's birthday, we had a very nice Christmas. We had family over for dinner and unwrapped presents. It was very nice and I greatly enjoyed the festivities.

Next came our visit to Mo'town. We were supposed to go around Christmas, but my PCP decided to be a jerk. I'm not really going to get into it (if you want the story I will tell you sometime), but he caused our trip to be delayed until New Year. (Needless to say we have a new PCP now) We had a very nice trip and enjoyed visiting with Eryck's mom and sister. We had a wonderful time and I'm looking forward to getting healthy so it can be repeated.

In January, I had my port put in. For those of you that do not know what it is, it is this handy device that was placed in my chest on the right side just below the collar bone. It makes it so that the doctors can draw blood or give me medicine without worrying about sticking me with a needle every time. While I did not enjoy first getting it placed, it has definitely made things drastically easier. I have come to love it.

I had a meeting with the oncology doctor around this time. We found out that, to use the doctor's words, my tumor "shrank dramatically." I'm so excited!!! I could even tell it shrank and I can't read an MRI. Please pray that things continue to go that way.

January also began my chemo treatments. I go in on a Wednesday to the cancer center and I'm admitted to Shadyside hospital. On Wednesday, I receive my first dose of chemo and it lasts 6 hours. This isn't too bad and I usually sleep through it. It is an IV and goes through my port. Then on Thursday and Friday I take the other of my chemo drugs. This drug also goes through my port, but it only takes an hour per session. I'm usually ok with my treatments themselves, but get sick afterwards. As I just had another treatment, please pray that this doesn't happen again. I have been hospitalized for fever both times and February was REALLY bad and I had a cold on top of everything. It has postponed my treatments to where I do not get done until July now. We are hoping and praying that nothing else goes wrong.

I hope everyone feels caught up now and I will try to post more frequently my daily journey though I must admit is quite boring in comparison, or at least I hope so :)