Sunday, October 15th

Not a bad day… and the chemo is OVER!

Kerrie made it through this round with little incident and was even able to tolerate the burning mouth a lot better. Of course, she froze her mouth with popsicles and water the minute the chemo started but hey.. whatever works.

As we watched the last few drips come out of that bottle, and into the IV, she just smiled and said, “It’s done… and it better be forever!”

She was actually able to eat a good amount of food today, with a lot of prodding from Ted ( thanks Ted!) and seemed in good spirits. Much better than yesterday. She was pretty tired though, so we only did two laps around the unit.. and then watched movies the rest of the day.

I’m not in a lot of pain today, and this had me worried, because I should feel worse than I did yesterday and I definately feel much better… Mom says I am just being dilusional and paranoid and that if I don’t stop saying “It’s not working” I’m going to freak out my sister. Don’t worry Mom.. she is more than familiar with my delusional paranoia.

Teena Taylor came in, from Ohio, on her way to see her family in Michigan and helped us decorate Kerrie’s room for Halloween. She now has bats and spiders hanging from her ceiling and cobwebs on the window and in the corners of the room. Kerrie even felt well enough to help out and went out into the hallway, to put spiders all over her window sill. The nurses and doctors thought this was cute, but I’m waiting for Dr. Jana to walk in the room and tell us to get all that stuff out of there. The webs are probably big dust collectors and the HEPA filter sounded like it was going crazy tonight.. so the decorations may not last too long.

Joi, one of Kerrie’s  awesome RN’s, told us about another patient whose friends had really done up her room for Christmas… But I made it pretty clear to Kerrie, she better not make any plans for Thanksgiving or Christmas decorations. We have NO intention of being there then! Got that Kerrie??

Chemo done.. two more days of injections and then… the dreaded catheter. But I won’t think about that now ( Who am I kidding? That’s all I think about 🙂 )  but it will be worth it when it’s all done.. and then I can hold it over Kerrie’s head for the next 20 – 30 years and milk it for all it’s worth.

Umm.. Kerrie.. yeah.. don’t forget, Christmas is around the corner and I have a birthday coming up. And don’t give me that whinny #^&@% about not being able to go out in public.. and how are you going to go shopping… yeah.. try the internet. I’m particular to emeralds and pearls.. but will settle for diamonds if I must.  And I don’t wan’t to hear that other excuse about not being able to work for the next year or some other silly excuse…

Of course, the best gift will be just having you at home ( but you can still expect me to milk this.. a little.. that’s what sisters are for)