Day 15 cycle 1 Treatment day

Well today was the third treatment of the first cycle. Next week is a "off week". Today mom had her friend A come and drive the medic van to clinic. Friend A is coming from across town. I am coming from the other direction. WE BOTH have to take 84/205 interchange to get there. For those that didn't see our news today a train derailed with 30 cars going off the tracks and 7 falling over. They are going to close this part of the road, to secure the lumber on the train. Anna goes a different way to bypass this I on the other had take the normal route, I must see train. I saw the train and drove under the leaning lumber praying the whole way. (More later)

I get to mom and first thing I see when I pull in is a MOP of PINK in the window. Upon entering the house I am introduced to Anna, now I truly do not believe that PINK is her natural color. She has gone and gotten her hair done "Pink Hair Thursdays!" What a treat! Now I must say if mom asks you to do her a favor and drive her to chemo, remember that it involves PINK HAIR! ;)

SO it is quickly decided that we should take the back way to treatment, as the freeway must be a miss with the train issue. Yes even I agreed to the way with all the turns. As it turns out they closed the 84/205 on/off ramps at 9:00 am the time we left for treatment. It would have messed with us a lot.

Mom had to have 3 EKGS two min. apart today so we had to be there early. Then it was up to see nurse TS and go over mom's lab results. She is handling the Paxt, and SU fairly well. Her test numbers are running good and we are soon on the way for treatment.

Mean while out in the hall the Pink Ladies are causing quite the looks of people walking by as they stand under the Oncology sign. Now imagine you are the nurse assigned to go fine patient Jann. You walk out and find a group in the hall... there is a Lady with nice long blond hair holding a camera, a lady with pink curls, a lady that has a pink mohawk, a lady in a wheal chair with a breast cancer hat on her head, and a lady with a nice short summer hair cut. Who is most likely to be the patient??? SO the nurse looks at the group, and tentatively say "JANN????" Oh and btw my dad came to the appointment, but he had already gone into the 'family" waiting room's think to hide he's never liked the color pink.

OK, so the technical stuff:
Mom needs to drink more!!! We all are trying to figure out how she was "not hydrated" with as much water that she drinks. She's been drinking 8-10 (16.0 oz. each) bottles of water a day! plus other liquids.
She is not to be touching the raw meat! Sorry Keep-er no more raw food for you for a while.
She's not been able to sleep much at night. She gets tired but can't sleep. They are checking into a sleeping pill for her.

Now we need to help mom come up with things to do on the nights she can't sleep. It's esp. bad on Thursday nights right after treatment. Last week she got up and cleaned the fridge... mainly the MEAT DRAWER! I got on her case about that and told her she wasn't too do THAT ANY MORE> ;)