I was told that the oral Benadryl would not make as drowsy or tired. Mel thought that too, but it is not true. The IV hits me really quick, wile the oral still hits me but it takes slightly longer. The effects last just as long and I would have slept just as long when I got home except I got a phone call from the at home care nurse to come by tomorrow. They asked if I wanted her to come by and I said sure, so they will stop by at 3:30 tomorrow I think to check up on me and see how I am. While I was at the cancer center I was so cold as I was by a vent, I had a couple of warming blankets and gloves on but I was so tired that I did not care to say anything and just slept. I woke up when they changed the drugs as they need to validaiton and then again at the end. I do not think that I ate as much today, but the steroids have an interesting impact as they are supposed to stimulate appetite. When I woke up I ate my regular amount, and I knew it was a good amount but I did not feel full. I did not eat more though and waited a bit. I then had some chocolate pudding and whipping cream and it was similar. I know how much I can eat and stop there. I am not sure if I push myself more what would happen, and I wonder if it would lead to me throwing up or not. Neuropathy is not too bad today, but I have quite a lot of fatigue. It is interesting the delay in some of the effects of the treatment. It took two weeks after my 2nd treatment for me to lose my hair. This cycle of treatment had a 1 week delay in the middle after 2 weeks off. I want to see what the effects are after i go through the normal cycle.
We decided not to attend the CNE this weekend as the forecast right now is showing 100% rain for Saturday and my electric wheelchair is not waterproof. Mel asked the kids what they wanted to do and they indicated that they wantd to go to another province. Mel told them that besides Quebec that there was nothing close by and it would be over 20 horus away. We could go to Montreal that is 7.5 hours away which could be fun but we would want to go for more than a day. Xavier likes going to bigger cities and Oliver does not care too much. There are seat sales if we wanted to fly to Calgary or to Vancouver so those are optons. We could also fly to Montreal but it is close enough to drive and save money. We also discussed Niagra Falls and some other options like that. I think that we can wait and decide what we want to do. The best time to go may be the September long weekend, or we can try and stay more local. We have been spending a lot of money the last couple of months and our bills have been quite high because of all the travel for hockey we have had tihs summer. This summer has flown by so quickly and we have not had a lot of time to just hang out in our backyard. Mel was thinking of having a movie night out back but we need to have some good weather for that. Earlier this year it was too hot at times, but right now I think that it will be a good temperature out there.
I remember attending the drive-in movie theatres with my parents as kids. I can not tell you what movies we watched, but I do remember having that small crappy speaker that you would put on the inside of the window for sound. I am sure that my parents would have never bought snacks from the canteen for us. We had ovaltine in the vehicle to drink as that was always the car travel drink. We had a thermos with plaid on the outside and it had a cup on the top. My mother would pour some liquid in there and we would share that as a drink. For snacks we would eat random chinese snacks like shrimp crackers. My dad at the time looked young and was always clean shaven. I think that right now my scrawniness was about the same as he was. Asians always look so young for very long, until all of a sudden they shrink and have an old look to them. When I think that I am not 50, it is always surprising as when I was young, 50 seemed like such an old age where it was close to retiring. Now I do not feel the same when I have reached that age. It would be fun to take the kids to a drive-in theatre at some point. They always question some of the things that we had so it would be nice to show them.
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