Chemo Round 3

Round 3 is over. We are half way!

Nat’s treatment went without any problems. Other than her having to be poked and jabbed with a needle and toxic chemical pumped into your body…

Mother's Day with a Mask

Nats side effects this time around have been interesting and not in the best way.
She has chemo on Wed for Thurs thru Sat she feels ok,
Come Sunday she starts to feel very tired and nausea as well as this tingling in all her nerve endings fire off.
I so wish I could do something to take it all away.
Friday night Boo said she wasn’t feeling the best.
Saturday morning she had a fever.
Now a fever in our house with a chemo patient is not a good thing. In fact it could put Nat in the hospital or even kill her.

I took Boo over to Insta care and the Doctor checked her out and said nothing she could see that was causing the fever and that it was probably just a simple virus.

I asked the Dr to test for strep to which she looked at me and started to say that it was not needed but I interrupted her and just said.

Her mom is in Chemo
The Dr smiled and said ok let’s do a test.
Well the test came back negative so we went home with a few masks for Boo to wear when around Nat and instructions to keep doing Tylenol and watch the fever as well as hand washing etc.
So For Church Nat felt extremely tired and Boos was still running a fever.
I had to go teach my Primary class so I told Boo to stay in one end of the house and Nat in the other and I would hurry back as fast as I could.
Well it was heartbreaking to see Boo put on the surgical mask in order to give her mom a hug for mothers day.
At 9 at night we got a call from the clinic telling us that a more through test for strep that the DR had done showed that Boo in deed had Strep Throat and that they had just called a prescription for medicine into a 24 pharmacy that was near by.
I just got back from there.

Not happy that they were not on our insurance but due to the lateness on a Sunday night I just paid full price.But I am grateful that the Dr did a test and even a more in depth test so we were able to catch this early before Boo got worse.

It goes without saying that I think I will be up a lot tonight sneaking into check on Nat and if she has even the slightest hint of a fever.

 

Chemo Round 2

Needless to say I did not sleep well last night.
We are here at Huntsman having Nats round 2.
We started off by having her get blood drawn to send to the lab.
Then met with her Chemo Dr
Then over to infusion to get her hooked up to the machines.
 I was a bit vocal on making sure the nurse all knew what happened last time. In fact I think Nat got a bit upset with me but she didn’t have to look at herself turning purple.
We are almost at the end of the treatment and so far so good.
She is a real trooper and I am so proud of her.
I am so grateful for her Dr and all the team we have here.
Also grateful for the love and prayers from family and friends.
Also grateful that the lunch room at Huntsman has good food.

She looks good

She looks spunky

Well Nat got tired of her hair falling out whenever she touched it, so tonight with all the Seaburys gathered round she had her sister shave her head.

The little kids thought it was so fun!

I have to admit I think she pulls the look of well.

She did go and buy a really nice wig to wear for Church and when we go out.

So grateful to a great neighbors who are always thoughtful.

Good things small packages

Well with all that has gone on all week it was a fun time to go and babysit 3 of my grandkids while their mom went to the hospital to have their younger sibling.

No one knew if it was a boy or girl so it was a fun time to go to the hospital to find out. (Well I knew right after since my son in law goofed on a text to me.

Me: How is Jo Doing?

Josh: Great she is feeding her right now

Me: Do you realize what you just said?

Josh: Crap! Don’t tell the kids!!!

 

Grandchild #6 is a girl and she is perfect to us of course.

Also we had my uncle’s graveside service yesterday. I am grateful I got to see cousins that I have not seen in a couple of years.

 

I am grateful for my siblings sand mother shown here:

 

Random Flowers and Death in family

 

Awoke this morning (after a so so night of not sleeping, I seemed to have to check on Nat and that she was still breathing all throughout the night, so much so that she told me to stop) and walked out to the car to be greeted by flowers planted in our empty flower pots out front of the house and a nice get well message written on the porch in chalk.

I have a sneaky feeling it was the YW of the ward but can’t proof it.

In fact I told people on face book thank you but now that I don’t know who did this I have to be nice to everyone.

So grateful for our neighbors and this Ward.

We have had many ask what they can do which is really nothing but prayers please.

One of the older ladies in the Ward approached me and just looked me straight in the eye and said. “I am praying for you guys again” This same sister came up to me the first Sunday after Boo had been placed with us and said “Now I can stop praying for you”. SO grateful for the faith and prayers of true saints that we have the privilege of knowing.

I truly believe in the power of prayer and positive thoughts. We have some of the best prayer warriors in the world that live nearby and care about our little family.

 

 

 

Chemo round 1 Purple is not a good color on Nat

Well, Round 1 of chemo is now done. Not sure my heart can take this for 5 more times.

She got all hooked up and they started the chemo drug through the IV. Almost instantly she started having trouble breathing, her back was hurting and by the time I hollered at the nurse she was turning from red to blue to Purple.

As we started her treatment I saw 2-3 nurses around, once I hollered we had 6 appear out of nowhere and one carrying a bright orange tackle box labeled “Adverse reaction kit”

They quickly shoved me out of the way and got Nat breathing right and her color back.

They said this sometimes happens on the first treatment but not to this level.

They then started the dose again but slower and a nurse stood right there for quite a while.

I am not sure I breathed during any of this. I just sat there offering a quick prayer reminding God that he knows me best and no way am I able to raise Boo alone.

I can honestly say I have never been that scared in my life and hope the next 5 treatments are not the same.

Needless to say Nat came through the rest of the day like a champ.

You can be darned sure I will be reminding the nurse’s next round that this happened.

I spent the rest of the time pretending to look at my laptop but really watching Nats color and breathing.

If this is Chemo…oh well positive right?

I am grateful they handled this and Nat is ok.

This is right before the excitement started