My latest Philly visit

Gary & I were able to fly to Philly this time. Wow, much better than driving!!! We were there from Thursday 11th to Monday 15th. I was admitted for my chemo again since I had side effects the first time around. And again, I had side effects. I was extremely shakey and jerky the first day and very weak also. I ended up falling down in the bathroom that day. I guess they shouldn't have let go of me since I was so weak. My knees completely gave out on me! Just a couple small bruises, no big deal. My weight on the day I got released was 152#. Wow! I was just 129#! What the heck? :( It was all fluids...I have so much edema in my lower body.

I spoke with my Oncologist & Surgeon during this visit. They were both very optimistic. I have been having less pain at my sacral tumor area so they were taking that as a positive sign. On my next visit in 4 weeks I will have a PET scan to see what my tumors were up to. If they stay the same or slightly grow than my surgeon said he would seriously think about doing surgery to relieve my bowel obstruction. He couldn't say what he would do with the tumors until he got in there. However, if the tumors shrink (WHICH WOULD BE FANTASTIC!!) he would not want to interrupt my chemo to do surgery. So, we shall see...

By Sunday, I was feeling good enough to be discharged but Philly airport had no flights out due to all the rain they had gotten. So we stayed one more night. On Monday we were ready to leave but found that the hospital pharmacy had thrown out my diluadid bag. They always put me on their PCA pain pump so I send my pump & bag to the pharm just to be held!!! But they decided to throw it out this time. So we had to wait for the home care pharmacy to make me a new bag and then deliver it to the hospital. Waiting, waiting, waiting...
Then when we got to the airport our flight was delayed due to the plane not coming in on time from another city. After a couple hours we did get on the plane only to have a another delay because a man was ill. It took over 45 mins to get him off the plane. Then we thought we were ready...Gary looked out on the tarmack and there were about 14 planes ahead of us...oh my, will we EVER get home? hehee. We did! We arrived in Columbus around 8pm. Were supposed to get in by 5pm. Well, it could have been worse I guess!!!

Also, my hair is completely falling out again so Gary shaved my head when we got home Monday. Burrrr...it's chilly up there! Hehehe

My next Philly appt will be Tuesday, Sept 6th. I think Laci may go with me this time. :)