Thursday....December 16th...2010

Another long busy day....

A trip to the OHSU medical oncologist first...he indicated that Linda did well on her first round of chemo (doing it over three weeks) so he was putting her to round two in the same manner starting today...after the 4 weeks of round two, another CTscan will be done to see if....a) the radiation or the oxygen has stopped the coughing and all....he says he believes it was the radiation..we shall see....and b) to see if the chemo has been effective...and if it has, he will continue on it for another round...if not, he will try something else. We asked him what that might be..he grinned and said "to be determined"...and then mentioned some drug with a very long name.

Linda's pulse and blood pressure have been good...which is a nice turn of events....with that in order and no cough, things are looking up.....Linda is still a bit weary of her hair falling out...it is like living old memories...and she didn't like it the last time...and having said that, she is getting used to it....she also looks a bit puffy in the face...which is due to the increased steroids....which she doesn't need to be reminded of either....

Linda had a "delightful" time in chemo..although it took quite a while again to get everything going....and we heard they had a new procedure..but one wouldn't have recognized it....and the "delightful" is relative...she sat in an area with a high spirited and delightful woman with breast cancer who had a great attitude and outlook on things....as Dave went shopping for Christmas stuff, Linda said the two ladies chatted the entire time...good to see others with good spirits and to associate with the same...

Tomorrow it's the get to gether for Linda's siblings and their spouses...it will be a delightful time for Linda..she is looking forward to it....

Dave is continuing his project of tiling the upstairs bathroom...his last big project inside....and he is off to Woodburn to change vehicle titles and finish Christmas shopping at the Outlet Mall...the joke is that the neighbors recommended Woodburn DMV because if you get in the "English speaking" line, they said you will be the only one in line...wonder what that meant...anyway, going to the DMV is almost as bad as the followup colonoscopy he has to have next week...or is the post office the worst?

Finally, while "spell checking" this BLOG, it wanted to change colonoscopy to kaleidoscope...think about it......