We were at the cancer center by 7:20am. We got checked in and assigned to a room which we stayed in for the lab work and the chemo treatment. This new area is great, individual rooms with a reclining chair to be in for the IV, and there was Baxter, just waiting for us. Also, a TV, DVD, sink, and bathroom shared between adjoining rooms. The windows looked out on a beautiful garden area with a water falls and a labyrinth. The nurse said 4 months ago looking out the big windows, all you would see was orange satellites for the construction workers!
Absolutely the best news of the day was that Joyce’s Ovarian Cancer index, which started at 293 was now, before this treatment of course, at 56! The nurse said normal is between 0 and 30!!
The treatment got started much earlier than we expected so it was done before 2 pm! In the meantime, I went to the “Muffin Man” got us omelet sandwiches for breakfast and a very good sandwich for lunch. Much better than Joyce being in a hospital bed with a hospital meal and me down stairs at the cafeteria with my meal.
Joyce felt good the whole day and is a bit tired now but doing great. We did some walking and exercising today and will do more tomorrow. I will also keep trying to get her to eat more to get her weight back to normal!
Our next (3rd) chemo is October 1st. I will get out some (but not every day) updates before then
Doug
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