I went to Century City with David this afternoon.  Only went to two stores:  The Apple Store (what was your first clue?!) and Gelsons.  

Life is good.

A Quickie

Thought I'd do a quick post before going to bed.  Had a really good day today.  Felt good yesterday too.  Looking forward to the week ahead.  Check back soon for more info!

xoox Amy

Blood Work

Today I went to Tower Oncology to do some blood work.  They pricked my finger (ow!) and filled up a few things of blood.  The results were back quickly.  My numbers are low and that is expected while being on chemo. For those of you interested in numbers and/or those that understand this - read on.

My WBC was 1.14 down from 7.9.   Biggest drop is the platelet count. It is 87,000 and before it was 256,000.  Yipes!

Mainly they told me to watch out for fevers (100.5 or higher then I have to call) and infections.  Not planning on either anyway!

Battled more today with nausea and thankfully the meds helped.

It was a long day.  Time for bed now.

xox

 

A Quiet Day

Today was a relatively quiet day.  I had a great session with Kim (as always) and spent the afternoon at home.

I spoke with an old high school friend that I haven't seen since 9th  grade.  What a trip!  She lives in Utah and has seven kids.  We found each other on Facebook- so much fun.

Tonight a great food gift arrived.  It's from a company called California Chef Services.  I got to order 4 dinners and they all got here tonight.  And the food is delicious!

Tomorrow I go to the chemo place to have my blood checked.  Big whoop...

I hope you like this photo.  Cute kids huh?!

Hope you'll continue to check in here.

Bye for now.

Coping

  My chest hurts because I had 50cc of saline injected into me today.  This happens every week.  Anyway, it was suggested that I try to distract myself from all this pain.  So I've been playing on Photo Booth on my computer.

Any other suggestions for further distractions would be greatly appreciated!  :)

Stock Tip: buy shares of Purell!

Hello friends and family--

This is Cathy. I've been back in LA since Saturday and it's been so great to be back with Amy.  While I wouldn't ever say that chemo AGREES with her, I would say that so far it's  been way easier for her than we feared.  There has been no horrible nausea, no throwing up, nothing really unbearable.  There has been some mild nausea, but it's always been wonderfully responsive to the anti-nausea meds she has.  She is tired but she has bursts of energy sometimes during the day and we've gone out for walks each of these last three days.  Very wonderful and encouraging, especially because these are the "hard days" of the first week! She even went to her women's AA meeting tonight which was great for her.

Thanks to all of you who have continued to support her, bring her food, visit, email or call her, etc.  Your love is very apparent and means so much.

Now that Amy has started her chemo cycles, I wanted to let everyone know that it is super important that exposure to other people's germs is greatly limited.  The chemo, in all it's glory, also wears down her immunity which means if someone who has a cold visits her, she is likely to get it, and it could end up being more than a cold for her--which would not be good . So please--if you do come visit, please be sure to remember to wash your hands with soap and warm water (for 15 seconds!) as soon as you arrive at the house--before hugs or kisses!  Also, if you cook any food for her, it's especially important that you create your gourmet meals with extra clean hands.  Thanks for remembering these details!

Again, many thanks for all your love and support.

Cathy

Out and About

Yesterday I went for a walk with my sister.  It was a beautiful day outside and we took this photo to show that I AM getting  out of the house!  I also wanted to show off  my new "movie star" sunglasses.

Today we went to the chemo place (also known as Tower Oncology) to get my port checked.  It's bandaged up and there was blood and that freaked me out a bit.  Needed to be sure that it was ok.  Angela - the nicest nurse practitioner looked at it and put on a new dressing and said it was fine.  I felt much better!

My appetite is very low today although I did eat a decent breakfast.  Trying also to drink a ton of water (at least it feels like that to me).  Pain is better at the moment.  Just doing it one day at a time.

More soon...