Monday, May 2, 2011

5/2/2011 Long time No Blog - I warned you.

It has been a long time since I wrote. Quite a bit has happened, most of it very good. We did leave Salt Lake on Thursday April 21st and traveled to St. George, we met with Dr. Te on Friday April 22nd and everything went well. He decided he wanted to meet with me each week to check on me and then we went out to Hurricane to see mom and dad for a while before we left to go to Vegas.

It was nice getting back to Vegas, to be back in the house with some kind of normal life was a little strange to get use to. I slept a lot the first few days because I think I finally relaxed. My stomach is still very touchy because of the side effects from the melphalan chemo a month ago, I guess it really tears up the stomach lining so I'm having to keep taking nausea medicine and I have good days and bad days where the stomach is concerned. Other than that I'm feeling pretty good and as I build up more strength and stamina, I'm feeling quite normal most of the time.

I went back to work part time on Wednesday April 27th for about half a day and then spent most of Thursday at work before leaving early to go back to St. George to get my blood taken in preparation for my Friday appointment with Dr. Te. The good news from that appointment is that I get a week off from all appointments and it will be Thursday May 12 before I have to have labs done again, which will be the extensive labs they will use to evaluate the myeloma at day 50. I don't know yet, but anticipate that I will have an appointment on May 19th or 20th to find out the results and find out where we go from there as far as continued treatment.

We got to see Bruce and Cara for a while on Thursday evening before they went home to Parowan. Josh came up from Phoenix this past weekend to see us. It was very good to see him and Addie. He has about 3 more weeks until he gets a quarter break for a week. We hope his finals for this quarter go well and he gets along well during his upcoming summer quarter before he starts his year of internships.

I will try to be a little better reporting, I guess I can report on how my stomach is doing as I try to determine what foods work and don't work for me these days (I don't think Pizza is a good choice for me yet), I had bad stomach day yesterday and it's not starting out great today. I actually came to work on time this morning, so we'll see how I last today and this week. Hope everyone is well and I'll write again soon.

1 comment:

  1. I'm glad things are going in the right direction, even though it's another bump in the road. We'll keep praying. Love you guys!

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