Monday Morning status

I spoke to Trish this morning while I drove down to the office in Glen Burnie. She sounded good, though she's the type who would sound good under any circumstance. She said her throat is feeling better and the docs want to move her back to pills -- the last few days they moved all her meds to IV to help preserve her throat.



She is feeling more queasy today than yesterday. I spoke with her again at about 1pm and she was sounding groggy, some more "vitamin A" to help with the nausea. She is hating the "vitamin "A" (ativan) as it is helping bring on more chemo brain than she has had to date. She's forgetting stuff and when we walked yesterday to the famous JHH Jesus statue, she started to go the wrong way off the elevators. She doesn't usually make that mistake.

In the I didn't need to see/read that department.....You may remember that the first night Trish was in the hospital, I was alone in a hotel in downtown Baltimore watching TV. I had on CNN and a story came on about Oregon's right to die law, where people can request assisted suicide under certain conditions. The guy who was the feature of that story that night had what Trish has (AML Leukemia) -- I didn't need to hear that on the first night in the hospital......Today, I am reading the newspaper with breakfast and there is an obituary on a lady her died from breast cancer. She had complications following a bone marrow transplant (I didn't know that was a treatment for breast cancer, though it was only used for blood cancers). This lady had two daughters, one had just graduated from high shool and the other will start her senior year in the upcoming school year. It too hit home. Trish biggest fear is that she won't get to see our two boys complete their journey. This disease has already cost her seeing Matt's middle school basketball season, both boys Lacrosse seasons and it will cost her at least the start of Andy's senior year. We are hopeful that she will not only get to see Andy graduate at the end of the upcoming school year, but she will get to see Matt graduate as well.

Thank you for your continued support.