Horses at the Kramer PlaceIt's another beautiful day out. Got up to around 85 degrees. Today is chemo day. Brought the laptop and am blogging in my chemo chair. Joe had to wake me up this morning. Last night I hardly slept until morning. Watched the trilogy of Sarah Plain and Tall. It is good. Left the house about 8:15 so had to drive a little faster than usual to meet the shuttle at Stanley's. Got there in plenty of time.
Passed Bonnie coming into the house for her first day of house cleaning. Joe will be helping her find the things she needs. We waved - will talk to her later. -----Yes, Bonnie called after I got home and sounds like she went like a whirlwind while she was here. All the cabinets and pine paneling cleaned and some of the windows and the living room ceiling. Maybe even more than that. She is coming back to do more in the morning. .
Arrived maybe 15 minutes early and had taken one of the special window cloths so cleaned all the dog nose prints off the windows. Yesterday I had spruced up the inside of the SUV and put the seats down which had been up for company, so the dogs won't get on them now, and I had time to brush out the floors and clean the dash. It looks a lot better.
Poor Al the driver had gone all the way down to Big Piney and those passengers didn't show up. Anyway Bob and I traveled to Jackson from Stanley's in the shuttle. We arrived just about 11 when was when my appointment was set. They had a little trouble getting my port to flow, but got it fixed and the chemo is dripping. This is the second or third time for that - getting a small clot in the port. Will have the pump for two more days again.
Ordered the special lasagna for lunch with a salad and it was good - except it was supposed to come with asparagus and they must have run out, because I got mixed veggies. Soon in the afternoon I started having more symptoms earlier than usual, diarreah, runny nose, burning eyes. They had given me the usual benedryl and Tylenol. But Paige put some anti-diarreal stuff right into my IV. She says sometimes one of the chemos will start a savage diarreah and it needs to be stopped right away. It worked. I sure didn't want to have to make the bus stop on the side of the road! My legs were also extremely uncomfortable and cramping. That went away after a few hours. I'm o.k. tonight.
We had no sooner got on the bus and gone a couple of blocks before the pump stopped working and began to beep. It's a computerized thing. Al turned the bus around and took us back to the hospital where Paige found the tube was clamped - I had looked at that and thought it was o.k. but not - She got it reprogramed in quick time and back on the bus to go home.
I shopped for groceries at Ridley's on the way home. The usual ETA at home was 7 p.m. Fixed a fruit smoothie for dinner about 9. Joe has a haircut appointment on Thursday and I will go along with him to get the pump taken off at the Pinedale Clinic.
