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The Third Shoe Drops

Chemo treat­ment num­ber 3 for Donna was Fri­day and this one made the last one look like vaca­tion. The last two we were able to leave from the Can­cer Cen­ter and have a nice lunch, this time it was straight home for chicken & bar­ley soup thought­fully pro­vided by a friend. More soup for sup­per too.

The last two chemos caused a lot of stom­ach pain and low grade nau­sea that we kept pretty much in check with the 3 dif­fer­ent meds we were given pre­scrip­tions for. This time, in spite of try­ing to stay ahead of the nau­sea with med­i­cine, early Sat­ur­day morn­ing Donna was vis­ited by Mr. Upchuck, twice. Mid-morning on we didn’t feel ter­rific, but every­thing stayed down. We made a short trip out to the Can­cer Cen­ter for another Neu­lasta shot at 11:00AM and man­aged a slow walk around our 1 mile long block, but other than that the couch was her friend. This morn­ing we had a repeat per­for­mance of Sat­ur­day morn­ing, but once again the stom­ach set­tled for the rest of the day. She even felt good enough to get a cup of ice cream and walk a block of down­town Aiken tonight.

We have a cou­ple of things we would like to blame for being hit so hard this time. Four days prior to this chemo we spent 4 long days on the road to and from Vir­ginia which was tir­ing. By Thurs­day she wasn’t feel­ing good, stomach-wise, already and we went out to eat with the Miata Club to a not so great restau­rant. At least we hope this is what caused it, because we can con­trol them and the lead up to #4, and last, chemo will be less event­ful and less stressful.

Started down, went up, back down, still down.
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June 4th, 2006 | Tags: | One comment - (Comments are closed)

1 comment to The Third Shoe Drops

  • DJ
    Wednesday, June 7, 2006 at 1:34 pm

    Dear Brian, I hope you remem­ber me. The crazy woman form KY that had a mil­lion Miata questions,loved The Bea­t­les and has a hus­band that started off as a drafts­man. I have been con­sumed with elderly par­ents, and our son just mar­ried. I thought I’d take a breather and visit “Mr Miata”. I am so sorry and sadened to hear about your wife Donna (my name as well). My neigh­bor and friend for 20 plus yrs is going through chemo for breast cancer.The same week she got the call from her Dr she also recieved a call that her hus­band had liver can­cer. It seems to be every­where I turn. I am not a “reli­gious per­son” but I am very spir­i­tual and will keep the two of you in my thoughts and prayers.
    I digress:
    Tak­ing the Mama mia in for her oil change. I drive the guys at this place nuts because I ask to many ques­tions for a wom­anl! I always ask to see the air fil­ter which I have secretly marked to make sure they aren’t just pulling any air fil­ter out to show me how dirty it is and how I must change it. I usu­ally bring all my own stuff like air,oil fil­ter and a can of Restore (which I always ask for the empty can back) Steve used to change all this on the Camry’s but with EPA guid­lines for dis­posal and it’s hard for him to get under the car these days,I cringe and take it to a shop. I NEVER thought I’d be tak­ing my car in to a place for somethng like an oil change. I don’t know how many times I did this myself. God help me…I’m turn­ing into the kind of per­son I swore I’d never be. The kind that depends on some­one else to do the dirty work for her.
    I have the top down today and fig­ured it will start to pour as soon as I back out the garage. I have REALLY enjoyed this car. I made a BIG boo boo how­ever going and dri­ving the 06.NICE CAR! Steve liked it because it had more leg room but as of now we are going ot be happy with the Mama Mia.
    Went to a Bea­tle fest in Louisville where my boy Patrick lives. It was too cool. Patrick entered a Hard Rock cafe /radio spon­sored Bea­tle tal­ent con­test and won with over 30 other entries.He recieved 500 bucks and was sup­pose to open for one of the Big Bea­tle trib­ute bands but keep­ing in true “Rohrer tra­di­tion” it came up an elec­tri­cal strom and the Big con­cert was can­celed. We still had ton of fun and it was cool to see Patrick in all his glory singing “I’m only sleep­ing”. I’ll send a few pic­tures of him in his Shea sta­dium jacket.They had a vender from Liv­er­pool sell­ing the col­lar­less suits,boots,chesterfield suits and the Shea sta­dium jack­ets. I caved and bought him a the Shea jacket for his early BD. Guess that’s about it form here. I will have you and Donna in my thoughts and prayers and pray all goes well for you both. All the VERY best,dj