Next Cycle of Chemo

I was supposed to start the next cycle of Chemo on Monday, two days ago, but unfortunately it did not happen. My white blood cell count was too low so I needed an injection of medicine to get the count up. I was told that the common side effect of this drug is that your bones ache. This sounded quite odd to me until I had a sudden pain Monday afternoon that felt like I had thrown my back out! After thinking very hard to come up with what I might of done it dawned on me that this was the side effect. No worries!

The white cells were up sufficiently on Tuesday to start the normal treatment. So we had the marathon first day session yesterday and got home around 7:00. While we were gone Aunt Shannon and Uncle Devin, along with partners Ellana and Ben respectively, took part in a gingerbread house making contest. Bennett got a better offer part way through the contest and went to play with his buddy across the street. Needless to say the work suffered and Shannon and Ellana were declared the unanimous winners.

Thanks to Aunt Shannon and Uncle Devin for coming in to help out!

Here is a picture from Chemo (just getting a little work done):

If you can not tell I do have a nice Sun King Brewing stocking hat on, thanks to my friend Mike for keeping my bald head warm.

I did have a little nausea last night but I did not let that stop me from having Taco Tuesday when we got home. Right now I am sitting here getting my second chemo treatment of the second cycle. Feeling great right now, just a little tired. One more treatment to go tomorrow.

Hope you are well and I will talk to you soon.