Another Monday

Well, another  Monday gone...thank goodness.  Monday's are a little more stressful than the rest of the week.

Roy had to be at the diagnostic center for blood work at 7:30am.  It always amazes me that we walk into that place and there's at least 30-40 people sitting around and Roy gets in and has his blood work done within 10 minutes.  Next week was the week that he was suppose to be there at 6am.  He asked to change the appointment and found out that it is basically first come...first serve.  So, he definitely won't be going that early next week.

After the blood work we headed to the 8th floor for the chemo session.  It still isn't quite as smooth as I think it will be by the end of the 5th week.  He goes and checks in at chemo and then has to go down to the infusion center to have a needle put into the port.  We were told that once we checked into chemotherapy that he would be "expedited" in the infusion center.  I'm not sure what their definition of expedited is but I'm thinking 45 minutes later isn't very expeditious.  So after getting the needle in the port the chemo session lasted about 2 hours today.  We were too early for lunch but did watch another cute movie.  Once done with that we were free until 3:00 when radiation was scheduled.

We were able to compare his blood work from the first 3 weeks (it included the first time we ever came).  All his numbers are still looking very good.  We are praying that his white blood count does not go any lower.  They told him that he needs to be eating a lot  of protein...so we went to Outback for dinner tonight.  I really look forward to being able to have home cook meals again in a couple of weeks.  I didn't  think that would ever be the case but eating out 3 times a day can get old.

Our prayer is still that he doesn't have anymore symptoms from radiation other than the fatigue he is feeling.  And that the white blood count stays within the normal range.  He has an appointment with his oncologist (Dr. Blum...keep her in your prayers) tomorrow.  I don't think the appointment is for any reason other than to just check on him.  He has done so amazingly well...thank you Lord.

God is in control and holding our hand.

Linda