Beginning the last lap

As a poor long distance runner, I always was so happy to begin the last lap in a run; to be encouraged by the sight of the finish line.

Today, Deb began her last lap in this treatment plan. Last evening I spent a lot of time sorting meds for this lap. We have clinic chemo and home chemo. We have meds to minimize the bad affects of all the drugs. We have meds for meds! The careful pain, nausea, health control that is available to us here because of daily labs and daily visits to the clinic allow us to treat this cancer as aggressively as possible. Any more aggressive treatment would have required hospitalization. Think of that challenge?

So, today Deb had the two take home pumps hooked up . One chemo will infuse over 4 days. It is called 'Red Devil' by the nurses. The other larger bag is infused over 24 hours. We will change it every day.

Deb is also already neutropenic .
She must wear a mask in public, wash hands often, be supper cautious about germs. She has very little capacity to fight an infection. Meals will be carefully prepared until her system comes back online.
She is very weak and sleeps a lot. Back to the routine of apartment-clinic-apartment. That's why returning to her bright yellow sun room will be so happy; especially when it is filled with you!