ANOTHER CHEMO DAY
The weather cleared up today for our trip to Fort Worth to Texas Oncology for Lou's scheduled chemo. Our daughter-in-law, Mary Kathryn, again came to help us through the ordeal by bringing our meal from ChikFilA. Dr. Hancock scheduled another chemo for March 5, but said it could be canceled if the CA125 test today comes in in the single digits Friday when we get the results. So add that request to your prayers. The last test was 13 so I am confident that it will be low and another won't be needed. Then Lou can begin to rebuild her immune system, stamina and normal bodily functions. She is still having back pain and tries not to take prescription pain pills to avoid the resulting constipation problems. Today she only took aspirin and tonight had to go back to vicodin after hurting all day even sitting.
An interesting phone call came to my cell phone while Lou was taking chemo. My brother, Walter, in Marietta, Ga. called to tell me he had read about the albino skunk and read three pages about skunks from some new age animal book that said if skunk was your "totem" that they were not aggressive, but when challenged had a great defense and would use it. He read from three pages for about a half hour and when I told him we also had fox in the back yard, he read that part of the book. Found out that foxes can climb trees, but we had seen ours do that last peach season in the front yard. Four fox pups ran up the tree like they were kittens to get peaches. I think I covered that story in the blog earlier.
Due to the tornados in today's news we also were remembering the tornado that wiped out Antlers, OK when I was in the US Army Air Corps at Wichita Falls the same day that President Roosevelt died. Walt said he ran into some school chums who told him that a tornado had hit and then said Roosevelt had died. He said he might have believed one story, but he thought they were stretching the truth with two tall tales. I didn't hear from the family for two weeks until I got a post card saying they didn't know about it because we lived five miles out of town. Walt said they drove to town the next day and were stopped at the edge of town by the National Guard who had been called out to protect from looting. The town was destroyed right down the middle. We had friends who were killed and a number who lost their homes so we can relate to those today.
The weather cleared up today for our trip to Fort Worth to Texas Oncology for Lou's scheduled chemo. Our daughter-in-law, Mary Kathryn, again came to help us through the ordeal by bringing our meal from ChikFilA. Dr. Hancock scheduled another chemo for March 5, but said it could be canceled if the CA125 test today comes in in the single digits Friday when we get the results. So add that request to your prayers. The last test was 13 so I am confident that it will be low and another won't be needed. Then Lou can begin to rebuild her immune system, stamina and normal bodily functions. She is still having back pain and tries not to take prescription pain pills to avoid the resulting constipation problems. Today she only took aspirin and tonight had to go back to vicodin after hurting all day even sitting.
An interesting phone call came to my cell phone while Lou was taking chemo. My brother, Walter, in Marietta, Ga. called to tell me he had read about the albino skunk and read three pages about skunks from some new age animal book that said if skunk was your "totem" that they were not aggressive, but when challenged had a great defense and would use it. He read from three pages for about a half hour and when I told him we also had fox in the back yard, he read that part of the book. Found out that foxes can climb trees, but we had seen ours do that last peach season in the front yard. Four fox pups ran up the tree like they were kittens to get peaches. I think I covered that story in the blog earlier.
Due to the tornados in today's news we also were remembering the tornado that wiped out Antlers, OK when I was in the US Army Air Corps at Wichita Falls the same day that President Roosevelt died. Walt said he ran into some school chums who told him that a tornado had hit and then said Roosevelt had died. He said he might have believed one story, but he thought they were stretching the truth with two tall tales. I didn't hear from the family for two weeks until I got a post card saying they didn't know about it because we lived five miles out of town. Walt said they drove to town the next day and were stopped at the edge of town by the National Guard who had been called out to protect from looting. The town was destroyed right down the middle. We had friends who were killed and a number who lost their homes so we can relate to those today.
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