deb10653

Thanks to all of you for the welcome, we have about an hour this morning before we leave for chemo, not sure which of us is more nervous! The getting up at midnight to take "anti-allergy" pills and at 6AM went fine, now the waiting. I have packed my time-consuming goodies (books & stitching) and some snacks for Dave as well as a few magazines, he is not a reader but expect if given the chance he will sleep. I also have the pain meds for the day, his pain is under control now but was unbearable in his shoulder a few weeks back so do not want to get to that stage. I will try to check-in tonight or tomorrow, depending on how things go and will post in the caretaker part, right? Deb

First I want to thank all of you for giving me hope, something I needed badly! The first words we heard were so negative, prognosis and discussion of hospice, was so frightening. Now we are finally at the "doing something" stage and I am a bit overwhelmed with the literature concerning side-effects and fear of infection etc., My husband, the actual patient is so optomistic and prefers to not really know all the details, I am the one that wants answers to all questions thus I found this place. Tomorrow will be a long day, six hours of chemo seems like forever but I am so happy that we have a local facility that works with Mayo and Univ of Iowa, would be 90 minute drive to either and this way it is local. Just wanted to post and join, I think in the days ahead I am going to be leaning on this site heavily! Also a warning... am new to this forum/message board thing so apologize if did some of this wrong! Deb