Good Week For Me, Bad Week For Debi

Well I have had a pretty fair week as far as my health goes. I still have the Chemo top five. Nausea, Tingling in fingers and toes, bad taste in my mouth, sores in my mouth and constipation. But nothing new and I have learned to live with them all. Two more weeks and I get my last chemo treatment. Then by my schedule, six weeks to get the poison out my system and then NO side effects. This is my first day back at work and it has been a pretty busy day. I feel more fatigued that I expected, but I am doing well. It was a battle to get the OK to get back to work. I didn’t go to the regular plant doctor, but group in Wood River that the company uses. I saw three different people and all three asked the same question. “Why is your company forcing you back to work?” I kept telling them they weren’t, that I want to go back to work. I have been watching cooking shows for thirty days and I wanted to go back to work. I am going to avoid going back to them at all costs. If I can walk through the gate, I am coming in.

Debi’s week has been pretty bad, I think as far as being sick, she has been worst this week than I have the entire three months of chemo, except for maybe one or two days. She started to get sick last Friday and even wanted to go to the emergency care facility. We got there at 1:15 Saturday afternoon and they closed at 1:00 PM. So she suffered until Monday when she was able to get into the doctor. She has some kind of virus, but isn’t supposed to be contagious. Tuesday she got up for the kids at 7AM, but went back to bed at 8AM and slept until noon. Stayed up a couple hours and then went back to bed. Wednesday and Thursday were worst for her, she slept most of the day and night. Well grandpa got to watch the kids Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Let me tell you, grandpa doesn’t have the patience that grandma has. Grandpa is more the let’s play now and then go away now type of guy. My hat is off to grandma and her skills, but I will still give her crap about having roid one and roid two up her ass.