Good morning everyone! Just wanted to check in and say hi as Scott is working through treatment number 10. Can you believe it’s number 10 already? We can’t – sometimes it feels like it’s gone fast, other times it feels like it’s been an eternity (especially for Scott). He’s inpatient again this week, and unfortunately, at Jackson again. At least this time his room is not directly across from the ice machine and nurses station. I’m working, so I’ll be going down to see him tonight. He’s going good – bored and tired, but at least nothing eventful is going on. He tries to sleep a lot because he can never get a good long “run” of uninterrupted sleep. They come in often to give him more medicine, or to take more vitals, and the IV beeps all the time.
The Dad’s are helping and are there for us – Scott’s Dad is still spending nights at the hospital with him and my Dad is down from NJ to be at the house at help me with the dogs. We’re very grateful for the help!
Friday is the appointment with the Radiologist, so we should have some updates then. I hope everyone has a great week!
Love,
Amy
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Happy Birthday Scott!
Thursday, July 7, 2011
More Behind Me than in Front of Me
Hey everyone. It's Scott this time. I know it's been a while since I posted, but this is a milestone I wanted to share with you. First I need to thank Amy for keeping up with the blog. She does a fantastic job with it.
Well, my 9th treatment is now complete. That is a lot of treatments, especially considering that a lot of cancer patients would have been done by now. And I still have a lot left to go (8 more treatments). But the great thing is that there are more treatments behind me than in front of me. I still can't believe that I've made it this far. It seems like it was just a couple weeks ago that my oncologist was telling me "17 treatments" (that got me to cry more than hearing I had cancer!!), and now I only have 8 left. I can't tell you how happy that makes me. What makes me even happier is knowing all the well wishes and prayers I get from all of you. It's what keeps me going.
As Amy said in the previous post, we don't know about radiation yet. We will be meeting with the radiologist before I am admitted for my next treatment, July 25th. At that time, I am assuming I will find out how much radiation therapy I will need. My guess is a minimum of a couple of weeks, but hopefully less. When I find out, I will let you know.
Also, as Amy said, my next treatment needed to be postponed 1 week, which I guess is a good and bad thing. I didn't want to postpone it, but I have to admit it will be nice not to have to spend my birthday in the hospital. I really don't want to push any treatment out so I can be done with all of this that much sooner, but what can you do. The thing that sucks now is that my next outpatient will be on Amy's birthday. I hate that and do not want her to be thinking about it on that day. Maybe I can see if I can do it on Tuesday instead. Will have to ask about that one.
Other than that, I am feeling good. Got some sleep today, which was great, but I am looking forward to going back to work tomorrow. I hope you are all doing well.
Scott
Well, my 9th treatment is now complete. That is a lot of treatments, especially considering that a lot of cancer patients would have been done by now. And I still have a lot left to go (8 more treatments). But the great thing is that there are more treatments behind me than in front of me. I still can't believe that I've made it this far. It seems like it was just a couple weeks ago that my oncologist was telling me "17 treatments" (that got me to cry more than hearing I had cancer!!), and now I only have 8 left. I can't tell you how happy that makes me. What makes me even happier is knowing all the well wishes and prayers I get from all of you. It's what keeps me going.
As Amy said in the previous post, we don't know about radiation yet. We will be meeting with the radiologist before I am admitted for my next treatment, July 25th. At that time, I am assuming I will find out how much radiation therapy I will need. My guess is a minimum of a couple of weeks, but hopefully less. When I find out, I will let you know.
Also, as Amy said, my next treatment needed to be postponed 1 week, which I guess is a good and bad thing. I didn't want to postpone it, but I have to admit it will be nice not to have to spend my birthday in the hospital. I really don't want to push any treatment out so I can be done with all of this that much sooner, but what can you do. The thing that sucks now is that my next outpatient will be on Amy's birthday. I hate that and do not want her to be thinking about it on that day. Maybe I can see if I can do it on Tuesday instead. Will have to ask about that one.
Other than that, I am feeling good. Got some sleep today, which was great, but I am looking forward to going back to work tomorrow. I hope you are all doing well.
Scott
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Checking in from treatment #9
Hello all! Just a quick check-in - Scott's chemo was postponed from Monday to today because of the 4th of July holiday. All is going well and he'll be home before midnight this time! I'm a bit heartbroken today because this is the first treatment I'm not there for. :( I got a new job, which is a great thing, but bad because I am no longer consulting and have the flexibility to be there as I once did. I knew it was going to be hard, but I didn't think it would be this hard. Of course Neil is there with him and that makes me happy, but I miss him terribly. (He's actually probably grateful for me not being there to nag him! lol) My new boss is kind and understanding and I will still take time off for the really important appointments and happenings. I will also still be keeping everyone updated as best I can via the blog.
He's going to post next, but not tonight. The next inpatient treatment is also being postponed a week because of this one being rescheduled, so I will be changing the calendar. We're a week behind now, but still going strong - he's still on track to be done with chemo on Halloween (that is if he doesn't get bumped again for Labor Day). I'm hoping that even radiation will be done by the end of year so we can just cross 2011 off the list and move on to 2012! We still don't have an update about the radiation schedule - we'll know more about that in a few weeks.
As always, we hope everyone is doing well and that they had a great 4th!
Love,
Amy
He's going to post next, but not tonight. The next inpatient treatment is also being postponed a week because of this one being rescheduled, so I will be changing the calendar. We're a week behind now, but still going strong - he's still on track to be done with chemo on Halloween (that is if he doesn't get bumped again for Labor Day). I'm hoping that even radiation will be done by the end of year so we can just cross 2011 off the list and move on to 2012! We still don't have an update about the radiation schedule - we'll know more about that in a few weeks.
As always, we hope everyone is doing well and that they had a great 4th!
Love,
Amy
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