Christian's Cancer Journey

 Just a quick update, as she had treatment 7 yesterday. She had the IV benadryl administered as a pre-med again, which means she pretty much slept thru the whole treatment time. Other than that, it went fine. One more treatment on Aug 9th, then a few scans, then we will know if surgery is the next step or not. Today she is doing actually pretty good! She is feeling decent today, which is not typically how the day after treatment is, but we will take it! Her mom came over and hung out with her today while I was at work. They went to the Japanese place right up the road for lunch.  She has neuropathy in her hands and feet, and can't touch, eat, or drink cold stuff.. but the fatigue is surprisingly not bad today which is great. We will monitor that thru the rest of the week and put up a post with any changes. Just wanted everyone to know what's going on.  A "not so bad" cycle still sucks, but thankful she isn't feeling really bad (like cycle 5). Thanks to all for the

Just wanted to share a few thoughts before my next treatment on Monday. I hope everyone has a great weekend. - Christian  

I finally decided to share something on my own blog.  Thanks everyone for the love and support.  

 Just a brief update to let everyone know how she is doing. Yesterday evening was the turning point for getting back to normal from this cycle. She got her energy back, and the neuropathy and cold sensitivity went away. This morning she was feeling good.  So it has been somewhat consistent that the fatigue and other side effects usually stick around for around 5 days after treatment day. Now she has a week of feeling decent and actually having the energy to do some things so that is nice. A lot better than laying on the couch not being able to do anything for days on end.  She is still hanging onto her hair. It has thinned out some, but you would not notice it unless she pointed it out to you and showed you. We will see if it stays around for the next two cycles or not soon enough.  Just wanted everyone to know she is feeling well now and should be for the rest of this coming week. Thanks to all for the support -Kenny

 It is Thursday (July 15) morning around 7:30am. She is still asleep. Just wanted to give a brief update for whoever wants to know. This round doesn't seem to be as hard as cycle 5. Which is good, because that one really did a number on her. This cycle is similar to cycle 4 if I had to compare. -She is tired, and rests on the couch 95% of the day.     She unloaded the dishwasher, and popped a small pizza in the oven yesterday while I was working      outside on some stuff.. so she is able to get  up and do small tasks if she has to. For the most part     I try to make sure she doesn't need to get up for anything. -The neuropathy is lasting a little longer this round than previously before.     Previous rounds, the tingly hands and feet would come and go for 5-10 seconds every 5-10min.     T his round, the tingly hands and feet come and go for 30sec-1min every 5-10min. -She is still sensitive to cold things (can't touch, eat, or drink anything cold). She will have this going

 It has been a little over a week since my last post on Sunday July 4th.  We went to hang out at Oak Hollow Lake for part of the day on the 4th with some of her family.  It was a fun afternoon with some good food, a few boat rides, etc.. The last treatment kicked her butt pretty bad as I said in previous posts. She started feeling it during the treatment that Monday June 28th, and didn't get back to 100% until Saturday July 3rd.  Last week (July 4 - July 10) was her "off week". She felt great that whole week and did a few things to help normalize life. She went to Hobby Lobby with one of her friends one afternoon. She went to eat dinner a couple times with some friends and family. We did a few things around here and ordered out and grilled out a few evenings. It was a good week. Yesterday was treatment #6. We got to the hospital around 9:30am and got checked in. She got her port accessed and her labs were drawn. We met with Dr. Paluri and discussed her side effects and a

 Happy 4th of July to whoever is reading this! This week was pretty rough on her physically, mentally, and emotionally.  She basically stayed in the same spot on the couch from Monday evening (when we got home from treatment) until Saturday morning. That is of course with the exception of going to the bathroom, going to hospital Wed to have 5FU pump removed, and going to bed.  Other than that, I pretty much brought her food and drinks and stuff because she had zero energy. She had several ups and downs because of this. She wanted to get up and do things around the house. She said she felt bad because I was doing everything. But she couldn't because she didn't have the energy to get up. I made sure she knew that this is what I wanted to be doing and that is was no burden on me and we had several long talks throughout the week about all kinds of different stuff. Each cycle seems to have a little longer recovery time (energy). I am hoping that we have kind of hit the maximum recov

 Good morning, Not a lot to update here, but just wanted to make sure the info was out there. Not a lot of change since Monday (treatment day) as far as side effects go. She has spent all day on the couch Tuesday and yesterday. Yesterday evening we had to go back to the hospital to have her 5FU Pump (Franklin V) unhooked.  Other than that, not a lot of activity going on, which is to be expected. Maybe today her energy will begin to come back. She is fine, and is very well taken care of, she is just tired.  She was a little upset yesterday afternoon because she hasn't done anything in a few days. I told her it is perfectly OK to be tired, that is part of the process with these drugs, and it is what is needed for her to get better in the long run.  That is pretty much it for now. I will update if something changes. Thanks all