3/24/2017 Moving Day

Hi Family and Extended Family! 

7 + 3 Chemo started today! Same as what they did when we were at Toledo Hospital except one of the chemo drugs is a bit different. So 1 drug is ran through his IV and into his body for 24 hours a day for 7 days. The other is ran into his body for 10 minutes just for the first 3 days. When they first tried this round of chemo, almost 4 weeks ago, we had to stop after 3.5 days due to complications.  It is critical that he hangs in there all 7 days. I understand that his Leukemia should go into remission after this brutal round of chemo. We have a 70-80% chance! Very good odds if you’re playing blackjack, pretty good odds when you are dealing with cancer! Of course we will still have a way to go in our journey, but his success here is very important. 

We also moved to a new room today. We were waiting to hang our awesome pictures because they told us we would be moving last Tuesday.  As of yesterday no one had said anything else so we thought if we hang the pictures, inevitably they would say we were moving! It worked! 

I feel bad today because my honey irritated me! He can’t hear well and he hasn’t wanted to wear his hearing aids. The nurse practitioner had explained some things to us about some rules during chemo treatment. I was trying to correct him when he was telling others the information and he snapped at me. Am I awful to get upset with Chris when he is so sick?  I bit my tongue in the moment till I could talk some sense into him later!😊 I also had to remind myself that, in the whole scheme of things, it was really minor! All of us annoy each other from time to time but sometimes you have to stop yourself and put things into perspective. I quess we are only human.