This morning I had treatment and they gave me some of the drugs via I which seems to annoy Mel a. It D it extends the session by 45minutes. Today I was it getting one drug and it was a fairly fast infusion. When registering 3/4 clerks are ones that know me so I do not need to take our my health card and they fly through the questions. Today I had one of my favorites as she is super quick. She also is going to start work as a trainer which is awesome for her. I think that she will do an awesome job at it. Last week I had brought in a jar of cookies for the people in chemo and the reception is someone that I use to work with. She asked me if we wanted the jar back and we said no it was fine she could keep it. She had planned to use it with her grankids. I am happy that she is using it as it would be a waste not to. All of the nurses in chemo are great, but I do have my favorites as I am closer to some compared to others. Same with some of the volunteers. We got one of the older ones today that is not as chatty but she was awesome with the port. Probably one of the best experiences that I have had. I do wonder how tomorrow will go when I get the pig tail inserted. I started with my regular cranberry juice and once we got to the Benadryl try as I might, I could not keep my eyes open and slept soundly. I briefly awoke a couple of times and the nurses checked my band for confirmation of who I was and did not wake me. I think Mel answered for me and I know everyone there. We were done by 11 and went home. I had eaten several times today and normally on these days I manage to eat well which is great. My taste buds are not ruined yet either so it is great. I wanted to sleep but thought I should eat first so I ate and then went to bed. I woke up and noticed I had a scheduled meeting and took that. Did some work for a couple of hours and was trying to go to sleep but kept on getting calls from HSN so I was unable to do much about that. I managed to sleep from 4 till about 5:15 and then we ate. We all went to the grocery store to fill up the bags. I think that we could have purchased more stuff than we did.
The kids were pretty good about filling things up and what to get. I would have bought more but Mel said to stop. I still have time to add more things before they are picked up however. When you are giving to others, especially to those in need it is never too much. There will always be more people that you can help. While working at Vale we did a project at the food bank and one of the things that the workers had mentioned was that for the essentials they receive a lot of donations for that, but what people miss out on are those extra things or treats that are nice to have at times. I bought them treats and things that may seem odd. But when you think of it, if you are struggling with feeding your family will you spend money on buying chocolate bars or things that have no real nutritional value. You will buy those things that you need. Anything extraneous that I saw on sale I bought. I wanted more though. I also wanted to buy Costco volume of some things. Mel said no because she has to unload and carry things in. Mel was practical and combined things for Thanksgiving and fun stuff. The issue though is that they will be receiving this after it.
We have changed my appointments from Thursday to Wednesday as it use to be. The toughest time now will be Friday but that is ok. It is a work day and I will be able to power through it and not worry too much. When i am busy and working I seem to do much better and I think overall I will benefit from it. If there is work to be done then I do not seem to get tired. I tried to go back to bed at 2 today and ended up not sleeping until 4. Mel had come to discuss something with me, her abandonment of me at chemo. She can not afford to take 3 days a month to sit in an uncomfortable chair with me. Do she will abandon me, go work from home and then come back. She has meetings at the same time as the sessions so she can not always stay. I think she did this on purpose as she chose to move to this day. I also informed her she needs to arrange transportation for Xavier to RHP from 2 till 4:30 now as well. She was just trying to get me away from the arena, but this will backfire on her as that arena is damn cold right now, though she will just work from her car for a couple of hours. This will all be super fun as we make all of these adjustments. One of the numerous calls I had today was to move up my drainage appointment. So I get to go in earlier now as well. Mel will drop me off and she asked me if I wanted her to come with me and I said no, it as fine. She was going to drop me off, go to her appointment and come back and I said she does not have to. During chemo I sleep the whole time so I do not even know what she does. I have lots of people that would come with me, so it is not an issue at all. I have a team of developers that would love to sit there and chat with me, but it is pointless. My family and friends could come, but I am not sure if they would know what to do. When I start drooling will they wipe my mouth? If I start wimpering and crying will they sing soft kitty to me. So much pressure on them. With all of the volunteers I think that I can manage.
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