That's about all I have to say, feeling nauseous even though I took my compazine.
Going back to sleep.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
My wonderful Tom and today
First and foremost Tom on his way home from the store today saw a car smashed against a tree, the motor still running. He stopped and went to investigate. The windows were rolled down, the air conditioner going, the radio and engine running.
The man had suffered a stroke or a heart attack and from watching CSI Tom knew this because although the man had cuts on his legs from the crash, no blood came from them which means the mans heart stopped before the crash. Tom could not get the man out, the drivers door was against a tree and the man was really big. Tom said the man had a colostomy bag or catheter or something and some pills in a pill bottle easily seen. Also there was vomit on the mans mouth.
Another car stopped and called 911, the EMT's got there and got the man out, worked on him with CPR then took him away then the cops got there after a time and took Tom's statement, the other man's statement and a woman's who had pulled up statement. Then Tom came home.
I think Tom is a great man for being so observant and trying to help, he checked for pulse and everything but knew there was nothing to do for the man but he stayed to help in any way he could even if it was just giving the information he had observed.
I wonder if the man had family, how long it took or will take the police to contact them and I know how they will feel. I pray to the Lord above to take the man's soul to heaven and to comfort his family and friends and to give Tom the knowledge he did all he could and he is a good and kind man.
Today I cleaned the house except for vacuuming and will do two out seven loads of laundry (Tom made me promise to two today so he can help tomorrow with the rest before he goes to work. I want to get the house clean before the fatigue hits so a light dusting or sweeping or something will see the house and laundry through to the end of the fatigue phase. Not a lot of fatigue yet, just had to rest between doing some of the cleaning and haven't gotten to the laundry yet, am resting before I do that.
I had bad stomach pains last night and a bad headache but was finally able to go to sleep and today am feeling better.
Oh and Friday I have to call to try to get a Monday appointment for a full bone scan. I saw my orthopedist and he ordered a bone scan of my tibia (because of the pain of my shin) but I guess my oncologist got wind of it and decided to make it a full body bone scan in case.
So will write more when there is more to tell, hope everyone is doing well and having a good day.
The man had suffered a stroke or a heart attack and from watching CSI Tom knew this because although the man had cuts on his legs from the crash, no blood came from them which means the mans heart stopped before the crash. Tom could not get the man out, the drivers door was against a tree and the man was really big. Tom said the man had a colostomy bag or catheter or something and some pills in a pill bottle easily seen. Also there was vomit on the mans mouth.
Another car stopped and called 911, the EMT's got there and got the man out, worked on him with CPR then took him away then the cops got there after a time and took Tom's statement, the other man's statement and a woman's who had pulled up statement. Then Tom came home.
I think Tom is a great man for being so observant and trying to help, he checked for pulse and everything but knew there was nothing to do for the man but he stayed to help in any way he could even if it was just giving the information he had observed.
I wonder if the man had family, how long it took or will take the police to contact them and I know how they will feel. I pray to the Lord above to take the man's soul to heaven and to comfort his family and friends and to give Tom the knowledge he did all he could and he is a good and kind man.
Today I cleaned the house except for vacuuming and will do two out seven loads of laundry (Tom made me promise to two today so he can help tomorrow with the rest before he goes to work. I want to get the house clean before the fatigue hits so a light dusting or sweeping or something will see the house and laundry through to the end of the fatigue phase. Not a lot of fatigue yet, just had to rest between doing some of the cleaning and haven't gotten to the laundry yet, am resting before I do that.
I had bad stomach pains last night and a bad headache but was finally able to go to sleep and today am feeling better.
Oh and Friday I have to call to try to get a Monday appointment for a full bone scan. I saw my orthopedist and he ordered a bone scan of my tibia (because of the pain of my shin) but I guess my oncologist got wind of it and decided to make it a full body bone scan in case.
So will write more when there is more to tell, hope everyone is doing well and having a good day.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Chemotherapy day
So here it is, chemotherapy day after three weeks off. Woke up this morning as every morning with a pounding headache and took a vicodin. Tom and I had coffee on the front porch and read the paper.
I was apprehensive as the anxiety started to mount. Even with a three week period between chemotherapy I have gotten to the point I do NOT look forward to chemotherapy day. My stomach rolled and pitched and then it was time to get ready.
We got everything together; books, computer, Charmed DVD's to watch and headed down to the "Hoopdie" Tom's van, Tom was ahead of me and stopped, I wondered what was going on. The side slide door to the van was all the way open and yes it had been broken into. One of the back hinged windows had been opened so the hinge was broken and they had pulled it wide open and crawled into the van.
His stereo was taken out and his box and bag with work tools in it was gone, as was the middle not fixed down console, that held some oil and such but the registration was still there and the van started.
We live in a wonderful community, our the front of our condo overlooks the 13th hole of a Golf course and the houses about us are worth hundreds of thousands if not a few in the millions. A very well kept and nice area and people. Who would do this? I feel so bad for Tom but thank God they did not pop the hood and steal anything from under it and they van itself was not stolen and still runs.
Tom did not want to call the police as he says they really won't do anything and the stereo system wasn't that much (it was a nice one though) and it will make his insurance goes up, but if we get home in time or if not tomorrow I am calling the HOA to make a complaint, not they they will do anything without a police report but at least they can be aware there are thieves breaking into cars.
So we get here to the Cancer center and check in, I get my blood taken through my port in my chest and when they flushed the saline and heparin solutions I thought I was going to get sick, I don't know if it's in my head or not but I get very anxious on chemotherapy day and now not only the saline solution but the heparin solution are making me nauseous. So now we wait for me to be called for treatment, it's been almost 45 minutes since they took my blood.
Okay they called me into the day treatment, premed's started, takes about 1/2 an hour, then the Camptasar, about 90 minutes, then the Avastin, about 30 minutes. I took a compazine as I was experiencing nausea just from the saline and heparin solution taste right before they started the premeds.
Will update more later.
Marsha
I was apprehensive as the anxiety started to mount. Even with a three week period between chemotherapy I have gotten to the point I do NOT look forward to chemotherapy day. My stomach rolled and pitched and then it was time to get ready.
We got everything together; books, computer, Charmed DVD's to watch and headed down to the "Hoopdie" Tom's van, Tom was ahead of me and stopped, I wondered what was going on. The side slide door to the van was all the way open and yes it had been broken into. One of the back hinged windows had been opened so the hinge was broken and they had pulled it wide open and crawled into the van.
His stereo was taken out and his box and bag with work tools in it was gone, as was the middle not fixed down console, that held some oil and such but the registration was still there and the van started.
We live in a wonderful community, our the front of our condo overlooks the 13th hole of a Golf course and the houses about us are worth hundreds of thousands if not a few in the millions. A very well kept and nice area and people. Who would do this? I feel so bad for Tom but thank God they did not pop the hood and steal anything from under it and they van itself was not stolen and still runs.
Tom did not want to call the police as he says they really won't do anything and the stereo system wasn't that much (it was a nice one though) and it will make his insurance goes up, but if we get home in time or if not tomorrow I am calling the HOA to make a complaint, not they they will do anything without a police report but at least they can be aware there are thieves breaking into cars.
So we get here to the Cancer center and check in, I get my blood taken through my port in my chest and when they flushed the saline and heparin solutions I thought I was going to get sick, I don't know if it's in my head or not but I get very anxious on chemotherapy day and now not only the saline solution but the heparin solution are making me nauseous. So now we wait for me to be called for treatment, it's been almost 45 minutes since they took my blood.
Okay they called me into the day treatment, premed's started, takes about 1/2 an hour, then the Camptasar, about 90 minutes, then the Avastin, about 30 minutes. I took a compazine as I was experiencing nausea just from the saline and heparin solution taste right before they started the premeds.
Will update more later.
Marsha
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Sometimes something happens that make you stop and go WOW!
This morning while Tom and I had our coffee on our front porch a hawk appeared, gliding upon the air currents in lazy looping patterns, I am not a birdaphiliac (is that a word? (grins) so have no idea what kind of hawk it was but Tom assured me it was a hawk. Suddenly from the left side of our vision a crow (I think it was a crow, could have been a black bird I guess) appeared, flying fast and hard.
I thought nothing of it until I saw it approaching the hawk and told Tom to look, He and I watched as the Crow (?) attacked the hawk, swooping at it and working it's wings hard, trying to drive the hawk away.
The hawk seemed not to even notice the crow, just rode the air currents in the same lazy looping pattern with no effort while the crow expended tremendous energy on attacking the hawk.
After a time both disappeared from view but it was one of those moments of time where all you can do is watch and stop what you are doing and go WOW.
Just WOW.
I thought nothing of it until I saw it approaching the hawk and told Tom to look, He and I watched as the Crow (?) attacked the hawk, swooping at it and working it's wings hard, trying to drive the hawk away.
The hawk seemed not to even notice the crow, just rode the air currents in the same lazy looping pattern with no effort while the crow expended tremendous energy on attacking the hawk.
After a time both disappeared from view but it was one of those moments of time where all you can do is watch and stop what you are doing and go WOW.
Just WOW.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
CEA levels
Well, finally got Amy my Oncologist's Assistant to call me back and my CEA level from seeing the Oncologist and getting blood drawn on 04/13/10 is 100.9 and from when my last chemotherapy and blood draw before that was 100.0. The one before that was 88.9. So although it is not rising in leaps and bounds it is rising, which is a bit worrisome to me.
I am trying to look at it as my Oncologist said that this is a disease like diabetes or heart disease and we have to work at fighting it, and not get freaked out at every little change in CEA levels or PET scans but I will speak to him about it when next I see him whether it's this coming Monday when I have chemotherapy, or the week in between chemo treatments (Monday after this one) as I don't really know when I will be seeing him at this time.
I am trying to look at it as my Oncologist said that this is a disease like diabetes or heart disease and we have to work at fighting it, and not get freaked out at every little change in CEA levels or PET scans but I will speak to him about it when next I see him whether it's this coming Monday when I have chemotherapy, or the week in between chemo treatments (Monday after this one) as I don't really know when I will be seeing him at this time.
Yesterday
Well I seem to have gotten my strength fully back and yesterday Tom and I went to the Wild Animal Park in San Diego, we are members of both it and the Zoo so our passes are paid for, essentially we got in for "free" meaning we didn't have to pay just show our passes. Parking was $6.00 for members and we got to park not too far away, section 2, last parking space so short uphill walk to the main entrance. We then walked through the bird aviary and then down and around the monkey area, but instead of going right to the Gorillas we went left to the elevator lift to take us down to the Journey Into Africa Tram Tour.
Tom had planned the day to make the walking as minimal for me as possible (with my ankle) and to make it as stress free with the heat (for March it turned out to be a bit of a hot day).
So we walked from the elevator not too far to the Journey Into Africa Tram Tour and had about a 10 minute wait, then boarded the Tram.
There are reviews on this site of the wild animal park and I intend to put my words from here there to lean toward the favorable:
http://www.yelp.com/biz/san-diego-wild-animal-park-san-diego
The tram ride was great and free with our membership passes, it took us over 2 1/2 miles: we saw a cheetah dozing in the sun, she actually picked up her head and alerted on something so got a good view of her (Considering she sleeps 20 hours a day our tour guide (funny and informational guy) said that was a burst of energy for her (grins). Lots of gazelle and water buffalo, giraffe's, large and about a year old rhino's, wildebeest with a baby in the middle of their U shaped defensive positions different types of birds, and at the end or the beginning as you can walk by it before you go on the ride, there were two female lions lounging on a jeep top and hood and a male lion, sleeping on a big box set up right before a big window in a wall you could look at, I mean you will NEVER get that close to a lion in your life. Poor thing though, every time he opened his eyes someone would take a flash picture and he'd have to close his eyes again.
I have to say the animals were not hard to see at all, and only someone who expected to be nose to nose with them like at a zoo and they are right in front of you with only glass between you would be disapointed. We did not need binoculars or anything and the Tram went around so if you did not see an animal close enough from one side of that area of the park when it made it's way around you would close from the other side.
So then we got off the tram and walked over to see the side view of the lionesses and the front view of the male lion, and walked to a cooling off area (children mostly (made up like a playground) but adults were welcome also and I splashed my head and upper body with water while Tom took a picture without me knowing it LOL.
Then a bit more walking and a ADA van came along and the gentleman gave us a ride up the hill to the administration building where we had a short walk out of the Wild Animal Park and down to the car..
You can bring in your own drinks and food if you want, we had eated before we went and we brought in water bottles and refilled them at the many water fountains over the area of the park we went through.
So total not counting the price of the year long Zoo/Wild Animal Park pass? $6.00 for parking.
Next time Tom wants to rent two scooters at $30 a piece so we can see the whole park, not a bad price, and probably pretty good for me with my ankle and my fatigue from the chemo and cancer.
Then we came home, rested, ate a bit and then went out to see a movie: "Date Night" Great movie, very funny and a lot of good previews we are vowing we want to see.
A wonderful day and time and Thank You so much to my Love, my Life, my Miracle, Tom for making it so.
(Today is rest day for me (grins) although I don't feel bad right now, don't want to get to where I do, especially as next Monday is chemo treatment once again).
Tom had planned the day to make the walking as minimal for me as possible (with my ankle) and to make it as stress free with the heat (for March it turned out to be a bit of a hot day).
So we walked from the elevator not too far to the Journey Into Africa Tram Tour and had about a 10 minute wait, then boarded the Tram.
There are reviews on this site of the wild animal park and I intend to put my words from here there to lean toward the favorable:
http://www.yelp.com/biz/san-diego-wild-animal-park-san-diego
The tram ride was great and free with our membership passes, it took us over 2 1/2 miles: we saw a cheetah dozing in the sun, she actually picked up her head and alerted on something so got a good view of her (Considering she sleeps 20 hours a day our tour guide (funny and informational guy) said that was a burst of energy for her (grins). Lots of gazelle and water buffalo, giraffe's, large and about a year old rhino's, wildebeest with a baby in the middle of their U shaped defensive positions different types of birds, and at the end or the beginning as you can walk by it before you go on the ride, there were two female lions lounging on a jeep top and hood and a male lion, sleeping on a big box set up right before a big window in a wall you could look at, I mean you will NEVER get that close to a lion in your life. Poor thing though, every time he opened his eyes someone would take a flash picture and he'd have to close his eyes again.
I have to say the animals were not hard to see at all, and only someone who expected to be nose to nose with them like at a zoo and they are right in front of you with only glass between you would be disapointed. We did not need binoculars or anything and the Tram went around so if you did not see an animal close enough from one side of that area of the park when it made it's way around you would close from the other side.
So then we got off the tram and walked over to see the side view of the lionesses and the front view of the male lion, and walked to a cooling off area (children mostly (made up like a playground) but adults were welcome also and I splashed my head and upper body with water while Tom took a picture without me knowing it LOL.
Then a bit more walking and a ADA van came along and the gentleman gave us a ride up the hill to the administration building where we had a short walk out of the Wild Animal Park and down to the car..
You can bring in your own drinks and food if you want, we had eated before we went and we brought in water bottles and refilled them at the many water fountains over the area of the park we went through.
So total not counting the price of the year long Zoo/Wild Animal Park pass? $6.00 for parking.
Next time Tom wants to rent two scooters at $30 a piece so we can see the whole park, not a bad price, and probably pretty good for me with my ankle and my fatigue from the chemo and cancer.
Then we came home, rested, ate a bit and then went out to see a movie: "Date Night" Great movie, very funny and a lot of good previews we are vowing we want to see.
A wonderful day and time and Thank You so much to my Love, my Life, my Miracle, Tom for making it so.
(Today is rest day for me (grins) although I don't feel bad right now, don't want to get to where I do, especially as next Monday is chemo treatment once again).
Saturday, April 17, 2010
A wonderful thoughtful caring love man
That's my miracle, my greatest and last love of my life, my Tom. He came home from work last night and brought me the most beautiful amazing bouquet of flowers I've ever seen or been given, for no reason at all. Thank you my darling for simply being you and being with me through this life and through this disease, for loving and caring for me and for all the things you do and say that make my life better than it ever has before. I love you.
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