Horses at Silver CreekGot up early, showered and got ready for the day. Drove to Bonnie's house to pick her up about 8 a.m. , a little earlier than we planned but she was ready. I still hadn't gotten an answer about where and when to meet the shuttle, so we made a few phone calls and found out that there had been a glitch in the scheduling and it wasn't running today. So we just drove my car to Jackson. Very nice day for driving, uneventful, noticing how the natural gas pipeline is progressing.
Got to Oncology a little early, vitals taken and right into the chair. There must have been gremlins at work today because my port would only let fluid in and they couldn't draw the blood samples needed out. After much time consuming trying Carol took the first samples from my arm, then the lab called and said it was clotted, and she took another from my arm which took two tries to get a vein, same thing, then another in my hand. That made four tries and lots of time and supplies. Received the results and I was good to go for the treatment, but by then it was after 1 p.m. Carol got the chemo drip going.
I showed Carol my hands and how the skin has peeled off my thumb, very sore, and told her now the skin is coming off my feet with deep cracks. I thought I was keeping after them pretty well, but I'm sure the chemo is working on them. The blood test results showed that my protein was low, and I believe it was low last time too. So Carol suggested taking a protein drink supplement. So bought some whey soy protien drink at Smiths later. Food just hasn't been tasting right and gradually I've ended up settling for something carbohydrate, sweet or salty crunchy or spicy, just something with more taste to it. I never know if what I'm cooking tastes good or bad. Joe keeps eating it though. Everything else seemed as usual, so nothing new there to report.
Bonnie and I ordered some lunch at noon. I had an omelet and cheesecake (ate half and saved half for later), Bonnie had a fish sandwich. She was able to visit some with people there for treatment, and other friends out in the waiting room, so that was good. I fell asleep in the chair under the warmed blankets and had a good nap. I woke myself up with those loud snores a couple of times and everyone in the room was laughing. I apologized, but it was pretty funny. That's the longest I've slept there.
Bonnie drove us to Smiths afterwards to get my prescription filled. They had the best price yet for my pain medicine - $1.31 for 2 months. We did a little bit of shopping and I got only the necessary things. Bonnie drove us home and a good thing because I was pretty drowsy. The ride was nice and so good to visit with Bonnie and get to know her better.
Between Pinedale and Boulder, I noticed two horse back riders moving a bull, and before I knew it I recognized they were Gina and Bob. It was a fun surprise. We were past so fast that I wasn't sure if they were riding Nube or not. I will find out.
We got back to Bonnie's place maybe about 6-ish. She gave us more produce from her greenhouse and garden - fresh picked raspberries - which we polished off today - YUM tomatoes, zucchini, new red potatoes just dug that morning, cucumbers. I got to see Craig and their son Cheyenne with his two cute little boys - they came over on their ATV and he said he would come over one evening and tune up my computer. So I was glad to have a plan for that. I'm sure he will be very good at it. Mike who fixed the laptop never did call so this is good.
I guess after picking raspberries and all, I got home about 7. Joe had leftover spaghetti for dinner, and I microwaved myself a plate of that. Went to bed pretty quickly.
Tomorrow Joe has a haircut appointment and I have a dentist appointment to get a filling. I will get some groceries. Have to get the chemo pump off too. Sheral and I were going to dinner and the movie hopeful to see Mama Mia tomorrow night, but its not on after all. So we will go another time. I'm still trying to get all the Harry Potter movies seen without falling asleep though most of it.
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