Chemo was pretty much all day yesterday-- blood test right before, and Dr. Chen said that the blood cell counts were still good and where they should be. If they drop he says they do things to help increase- proteins, or blood transfusions, etc. So far so good.
Chemo is interesting. She basically sits in a lounge chair with the bag of drugs dripping into her pic line all day. Sounds harsh I know but its actually quite mellow. She lounges back with ear phones on (relaxing classical piano and YoYo Ma cd's) and sleeps through most of it. (next week I'm bringing the Bose noise canceling headphones for better noise canceling!)

After 5 hours of chemo, she then had to go to her radiation appointment. That appointment is usually just about 10 minutes. To say the least it was a tiring day for her, so she slept well for most of the day and last night.

She is very tired, but not horribly weak- she still quietly awakens at 6 am or so and slowly gets to the bathroom (takes out her own feeding tube) and starts her day. We figure routine is a good thing for her so we let her do her stuff... Then she's wide awake and either watches TV (she says daytime TV is awful so she'd rather sleep anyway), and also checks email. This morning I think she may have answered some email... so some of you may have gotten a response. She has probably 2 hours total of complete awakeness and lucidity.. the rest of the time she is tired and sleepy.

Between Joe and I we are getting meds to her every 4 hours. The tricky part is the 4am meds... I am here with Joe Monday thru Thursday afternoons. Joe does the midnight meds since he doesn't go to bed until then, I go to bed around 9 or 10 and get up at 4 for the 4am meds, then go back to sleep. Then both Joe and Cyndy are awake when Cyn wakes up so Joe does the 8am. I think we've got a good pattern for at least those three nights. While a body can go without much sleep for a night, multiple nights of that would not bode well in the long run for anyone so our pattern has been working so far. My Sister Eloise is here one night and my sister Josie another night so mostly Joe has to be on his own at night for two nights a week.... its hard to try and sleep and then wake up every four hours on schedule. But if we can keep consistent with the meds it then we can keep her nausea at bay.

Cyn has had a lot of nausea today, we expected it. Luckily no horrible vomiting is happening.

Please keep thinking and visualizing the positive stuff... like cancer cells diminishing, and decreased nausea and throwing up for her (that's the part she really hates!)

(Sorry if this post is rather rambling... its past my bedtime!)