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Posted by: Dan @ 6:43 pm
The past week has been a ride of big ups and big downs…
from the joy of our son Cameron arriving home from Hawaii for an extended stay…
and having Sandy’s parents, brother, sister-in-law and great niece stay with us for a few days…
to Sandy feeling wiped out, nauseous, thrashed and dealing with a rash on her face at the end of her first week on the new chemo drugs.
After a full week on the new chemo round, the drugs caught up to Sandy on Saturday. They are definitely harsher on her than the Temodar she had been on before the recent surgery. Yesterday she did not even get out of bed. But today (Sunday) she felt surprisingly better, and we went on a short hike on a nearby trail with Cameron. She felt pretty good on the walk, but unfortunately the exertion aggravated the rash she had developed from the chemo (probably the Tarceva). Rashes and small blisters appeared on her arms, legs and neck — she was probably sweating out the chemical toxins, which irritated her skin even more. But despite that, she and I were elated to be out hiking, especially with Cameron there.
This week we’re looking forward to all of us and Sandy’s parents spending a couple days at her school for the end-of-school picnic and talent show. Sandy will get a chance to say goodbye to the kids and staff for the summer.
The weather this week seemed to be a fitting backdrop to our emotional and physical ups and downs… bright, warm and sunny interspersed with thunder, lightning and dark, intense rainstorms.
“If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun.” -proverb
Good night,
Dan