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Lock down and some other stuff

Posted Sat, 09/20/2008 - 19:52 by tom

After a quick haircut, trip to Costco and then Babies-R-Us, I spent the rest of the day over at the hospital. Sticking with the normal pattern, the weekend is pretty quiet over at the hospital from a treatment perspective. She really did well after yesterday's round of chemo. All the numbers looked pretty good, so we are continuing forward and feeling good about things. She felt great today and she had a big appetite. Her mom cooked up a feast and that always helps with the appetite.

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It's Friday...

Posted Fri, 09/19/2008 - 20:15 by tom

She had another round of chemo today. This one was administered as a shot. They give you a little bit and wait to see if you are going to have a reaction, then give you the full dosage. She handled it well... all the important numbers remained about where they were supposed to be, so that's a good thing. I just stopped by for a little while tonight and she seems a little extra tired. They also started giving her some other thing today because her white blood cell count is pretty low because of the treatment. This will be another daily thing that they giver her. I don't have an official count, but with all of the pills, shots and things distributed by IV, it's got to be at least 15 different things that they give her. (don't be alarmed by that... it just is what it is). They weighed her today and she's lost a few pounds, but her appetite has been great so we're not worried about her weight at this point.

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TJ returns

Posted Thu, 09/18/2008 - 22:37 by tom

Anna had a bit of a tough morning. Every week or so they need to change the needle in the port. That's the thing they use to administer chemo, draw blood, etc... This article describes it better than I can.

It is supposed to be a simple process where they take one needle out and put in a new one. Apparently, it was a bit of a struggle. I think Anna was a bit nervous about it since this was the first time they were changing it. Plus, when they went to change it, they got it in but it wasn't drawing blood properly so they had to try it a few times.

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