And we're off...

We are now day 2 into our 8 day chemo cycle. Lyric has been feeling well for the most part but is a bit nauseous here and there. He did manage to go to school today here in the hospital for an hour and a half.. which was great! Then we found out he's back to being neutropenic so he can't be out of the room anymore.

We arrived bright and early yesterday for a Line-O-Gram .. hehe, funny name for a procedure. I wonder if if was invented in the era of green shag carpets. This procedure was done to see if Lyric's hickman line was indeed clotted at the end inside his chest. Quite interesting procedure really.. it's much like an x-ray but they injected this color die into the tube and then take motion pictures... much like an old black and white film on a projector. The results of this test were great! No clot!

Then he had his bone marrow test. We are still waiting for the results. This test will let us know how well he's responded to the chemo, and whether he will move from low risk to intermediate or high... which would mean straight to bone marrow transplantation.

We have moved rooms 3 times in 2 days! The first room we were in we shared.. this young couple had 2 little ones and just found out their 4 year old had cancer. Not sure what kind. But they fought and fought.. and invaded my half of the room.. had so many people in the room, were so noisy... and just plain rude. I was trying to be nice but they weren't interested at all. So a nurse was in the room and witnessed them fighting and decided to move us. Our next room was with a teen boy. He looked frail.. very skinny. He was very reserved and quiet. I introduced myself and Lyric and told him if he needed anything to let me know. We all went to bed around 9, but he was up bright and early at 6-6:30 making all sorts of noise. He woke both Lyric and I up. I asked him if i was ok if tomorrow he could wait until 7 to make all that noise. Then when Lyric became Neutropenic we were moved to a private room... ahhhhhh. Much better.

I feel a bit better, although I will be talking to Jane about something to help with stress. I haven't heard back from my Doc so I am assuming all the blood tests are fine and he was right.. my sickness is brought on from stress. I am eliminating some of the culprits so I already am feeling better. Stress definitely manifests itself in strange ways! I think my good friend Robin was right and I should do some yoga and meditation. It's just not an area conducive to that but I think I will try!