Sun. Nov. 19th
Meghan has been taking her codeine at bedtime and so far it seems to be helping, she has slept the last 3 nights for almost 12 hours and she's now moved upstairs to sleep. She usually comes down just before midnight to go to the washroom and other than that she's there until the morning. Since she's been sleeping well she's been feeling better in the day and no headaches. She's just using the heating pad for the back pain and it seems to be holding her over until bedtime.
Tomorrow we are back down to the hospital for our next bout of chemo, we're not sure if they will be doing 3 or all 4 of the chemos. The one she'll be taking tomorrow does tend to cause nausea and vomitting so they will give her an anti nausea medication about a 1/2 hour before the chemo and it seemed to help in the past. The other 2 are meds that she will take orally for 5 days. We are also scheduled for an ECG tomorrow while we're there so I pressume it will be a long day because the one chemo takes over an hour to go through her IV and they will have her wait around to make sure everything is good before they send her home.
Although we don't enjoy going to the hospital we do enjoy visiting our nurses, doctors and other staff, they are always so friendly to us, they are like part of the family now.
Take care,
Michelle
Tomorrow we are back down to the hospital for our next bout of chemo, we're not sure if they will be doing 3 or all 4 of the chemos. The one she'll be taking tomorrow does tend to cause nausea and vomitting so they will give her an anti nausea medication about a 1/2 hour before the chemo and it seemed to help in the past. The other 2 are meds that she will take orally for 5 days. We are also scheduled for an ECG tomorrow while we're there so I pressume it will be a long day because the one chemo takes over an hour to go through her IV and they will have her wait around to make sure everything is good before they send her home.
Although we don't enjoy going to the hospital we do enjoy visiting our nurses, doctors and other staff, they are always so friendly to us, they are like part of the family now.
Take care,
Michelle
posted by Meghan Burns at
7:19 PM
2 Comments:
Hi Meghan,
It's your cousin Grant again. I've been keeping track of your trials (as with so many others) by way of your mother's wonderful blog updates. Thank you, Michelle.
Keep it up. What you're going through really keeps my (and I'm sure others, as well) life in perspective. You're a tough girl and you seem to be doing remarkably well. It must seem like a neverending struggle sometimes, right? It's not. All these headaches, bouts of nausea and back pain, and wonderful trips to the hospital will, before you (and the rest of your family) know it, be long past. You're on the right path and you're an inspiration to everyone you know.
That's all for me. Greetings from the west coast to you, Meghan, and the rest of your family - Michelle, Uncle Joe, Josh and Jamie. Bye for now.
Grant
Good luck today at the hospital and glad you are finally having some rest. Take care and stay tough!!
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