9 Apr 2009
Welcome to my blog! If you are reading this, then I want to say thank you for thinking about me, and for your prayers, right up front. I hope this blog is serving it's intended purpose of keeping so many family members and friends up to date. I get cards, emails, and calls pretty consistantly each day from so many of you, and it just plain old makes my day! Thank you so much!
I had my Jonesing for a needle puncture fulfilled Tuesday. Dr. Z did the first blood workup since treatments started. My white blood cell count was a bit below the normal range, but Dr. Z said he is not worried. My red blood cell count was normal. Dr. Z said that he wants to accelerate the chemo to every three weeks instead of every four, which my two most favorite nurses in the world, Gena and Betsy, says is a good thing.
So we start round 2 next Tuesday rather than the following Monday. If I can stay on the three week cycle, I get done almost a month earlier! That would be great! The frequency of the beatings will increase, but the duration will decrease. Fair enough for me.
To put it in perspective, if Dad was traveling and I got in Dutch with Mom and had a good butt whooping coming when Dad got home, then the news that he is coming home a week early is one of those good news/bad news things. The good news is you don't have to agonize over the impending "meeting of the minds" an entire extra week. The bad news is that the results are not going to change.
And Dad was a school teacher, so I (we) got what we USUALLY deserved from a professional! There is that incident with the fly swatter while I was taking a bath that was something one of my siblings blamed me for, and for once I was completely innocent, but that is a story for another time. Needless to say I probably still ended up ahead of the game, but had one coming for something I didn't get caught doing. There may be many similar stories in the entire Hidy clan, I'm sure.
So that is about it for now. Still feeling good, hoping the weather warms up some more soon. I am just about 1/2 way thru the radiation treatments. 9 more days to go!
Today's post is for Jan, who I could not have possibly made it this far without. Thanks sweetie!
More in a few days. Thanks again, and God bless!
M
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I believe you probably deserved the flyswatter as I sat tucked away in my bedroom chuckling over mom's creative way to punish you! Wet skin, flyswatter, naked............we feared those words "wait until your dad gets home"
ReplyDeleteGood God, don't use the words wet skin and naked...........EVER!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteIt could scar a person no matter what the situation...............
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I can't comment on the flyswatter episode, but it does sound intriguing.
ReplyDeleteHave a blessed Easter. We will all be thinking of you. Healing is just a touch of the resurrection life that was displayed that first Easter and which all believers will share in one day. "We are not as those who have no hope." --St. Paul
Jess