Thursday, May 14, 2009

This has been a super week!!!!!!!!! Started off with us attending Cowboy Church Sunday before we left to make our trip back to Houston. Isn't God good? He allowed some time at home for a short period of time and then back to start what we had started 4 weeks ago. This has been a great week in that Michael has felt good all week and hopefully will continue feeling pretty good. We do know that his counts will probably start going down next week, but it should be a easier week two, second round as we know what to expect now. Him being an outpatient has been a blessing in disguise and he has done excellent in caring for the IV bags and watching his body react. We have to wrap his arm in Cling Wrap when he bathes so that he will not get the catheter wet where it goes in his arm. We have a plan for Dr. Ravi come time for our next visit. We have something scheduled through Memorial Day weekend but we are going to try and work a deal with him to have our blood work done in Olney or Wichita Falls on the Friday before Memorial Day so we get another Olney fix. Hopefully he will make a deal with Michael. We could leave here on Thursday afternoon after the CT scan which we are anxiously waiting to see how small the tumor has got, and come back on Sunday to start Chemo again on Monday, June 1, 2009. Would give me some time at the office to get the bills printed and mailed so no one would be disappointed in not getting a water bill. I know you are already disappointed. I could do this on Friday. Anyway, this is our deal to try and make with the Dr. Michael has put on 9 lbs since Monday.....from all the fluid he has been given by IV. It will all start to come off next week. We may have to drag out the pre MD Anderson pants before then. Keep up the thoughts and prayers and we will get through this before you know it. Love, Terri and Michael
8:00pm My oh my how things change. . . . kinda like the weather in North Texas. We left the hospital this evening about 7:30pm and before we got to the parking garage, Michael's fatigue had set in greatly and he nearly didn't make it to the car. When we left, he was real hungry and stopped at Burger King for a smokehouse burger, but couldn't eat it when he got it. He just barely made it to the couch inside the house before he collapsed. He is as white as a sheet and can't hardly hold his head up. They took the red devil out today and will pump fluids for the next three days. He nearly wore me out today at the hospital disconnecting the IV pole for him to go to the rest room. This is the worse part of the treatment, seeing him so helpless. . . . reminds me of a newborn baby. Will go in a while and get him to bed with some help. He wouldn't let me push him to the parking garage today in a wheelchair. . . he is so much like my mother......independent and all until it hits.