Sorry to make those of you who read my first weekend update wait so long for more news....
Well we saw the Opthalmologist and it was all good news. Trish is suffering from severe dry eyes. Her left eye shows lots of scratching and the right eye shows some. The eye doc put some numbing drops in her eyes and she could open them just fine. He checked and the effect is no deeper than the eye's surface. So that's about as good as it can get. They have taken her off the steroids for her eyes (FML) and she now must put an ointment on them every two hours till they feel better than 4x a day after that, natural tears 6x a day and an over the counter eye antihistamine twice a day. We'll do a follow up appt with the opthalmalogist a week from Wednesday and have our regularly assigned IPOP visit tomorrow at 12:30p.m. We'll also start watching her counts again, looking for them to come up. Looks like the chemo did its job, yesterday her white count was at 50. Other than the eyes Trish feels good and is much more stable on her feet than she has been in recent days.
At the moment I am writing this from Aunt Mary's back porch. It is a beautiful, sunny day with a cool breeze. Her wind chimes are playing like I have never heard wind chimes play before. They look like the simple wind chimes you would pick up at Home Depot or Wal-Mart, but they are playing wonderful music. I have never heard chimes play quite that wonderful before. The view from Aunt Mary's back yard is wonderful. Her house sits a top a high hill and down to the right is a horse farm, straight ahead all you see our trees ( I know there are houses sprinkled in there, but you can't really see them). At the front of her house, across the street, is the farm her son Ed works at with it's own rolling hills. It is so peaceful. Just sitting here and doing nothing.
The breeze not only feels good on my skin, but Aunt Mary has hung laundry between two trees to dry. For many of us this either seems old fashioned or just not an option. Today it is against the rules to air dry clothes in so many places. You must have a dryer. Aunt Mary does have a dryer, but she insists that it is better to air dry some things. I'd like to say that just watching clothes dry in the breeze can be therapeutic. We have all forgotten how to recharge and relax. I know, I have.
I bet if you really relax one day, even for a brief period of time, you will know too that what you have called relaxing up till than was indeed just an excuse for relaxing. Something to fool your brain into powering on through another day. Through more things you have to do. We have all learned how to cope with our need to relax and have forgotten how to relax.
Well we saw the Opthalmologist and it was all good news. Trish is suffering from severe dry eyes. Her left eye shows lots of scratching and the right eye shows some. The eye doc put some numbing drops in her eyes and she could open them just fine. He checked and the effect is no deeper than the eye's surface. So that's about as good as it can get. They have taken her off the steroids for her eyes (FML) and she now must put an ointment on them every two hours till they feel better than 4x a day after that, natural tears 6x a day and an over the counter eye antihistamine twice a day. We'll do a follow up appt with the opthalmalogist a week from Wednesday and have our regularly assigned IPOP visit tomorrow at 12:30p.m. We'll also start watching her counts again, looking for them to come up. Looks like the chemo did its job, yesterday her white count was at 50. Other than the eyes Trish feels good and is much more stable on her feet than she has been in recent days.
At the moment I am writing this from Aunt Mary's back porch. It is a beautiful, sunny day with a cool breeze. Her wind chimes are playing like I have never heard wind chimes play before. They look like the simple wind chimes you would pick up at Home Depot or Wal-Mart, but they are playing wonderful music. I have never heard chimes play quite that wonderful before. The view from Aunt Mary's back yard is wonderful. Her house sits a top a high hill and down to the right is a horse farm, straight ahead all you see our trees ( I know there are houses sprinkled in there, but you can't really see them). At the front of her house, across the street, is the farm her son Ed works at with it's own rolling hills. It is so peaceful. Just sitting here and doing nothing.
The breeze not only feels good on my skin, but Aunt Mary has hung laundry between two trees to dry. For many of us this either seems old fashioned or just not an option. Today it is against the rules to air dry clothes in so many places. You must have a dryer. Aunt Mary does have a dryer, but she insists that it is better to air dry some things. I'd like to say that just watching clothes dry in the breeze can be therapeutic. We have all forgotten how to recharge and relax. I know, I have.
I bet if you really relax one day, even for a brief period of time, you will know too that what you have called relaxing up till than was indeed just an excuse for relaxing. Something to fool your brain into powering on through another day. Through more things you have to do. We have all learned how to cope with our need to relax and have forgotten how to relax.
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