Weekend

 I got through chemo.  I'm now halfway done with those treatments.  My doctor talked to me about doing maintenance therapy after these 6 rounds.  It would be an infusion every other month for two years.  I want to find out more about it.  It seems like a good thing but also seems like two more years....

Adam went with me and apologized a lot that he had to work some.  He said, "I'm not as fun as Olivia."

I honestly didn't mind.  I know he has to work and I was kind of in a haze anyway.  I watched a movie on my laptop and we played cards and I stared into the middle distance feeling the effects of steroids on top of Benadryl.  I think I was more wiped out this time around, but I also went into it pretty worn down.

We had multiple people bring us food.  Some we knew would be coming and some we did not.  Cancer has been hard, but it has also been an opportunity to see the very best of people who surround me.

I talked to Enoch Friday afternoon and he told me about the sweet prayers my nephew Boston says for me.  How can anyone feel discouraged when you consider that?

I had two FaceTime calls with Emma, checking out her new apartment.  I think it will be really nice.  She moved Saturday.  I felt bad that I couldn't help.  (No one needed me there, fainting.) Adam and Mark left early to go help her and she had some friends lined up to help as well.  I had my very own Kevin McCallister Home Alone day.  I mixed in mostly sitting with brief intervals of getting up and walking around.  I drank a lot of Powerade and water.  

In the evening I went with Adam to the store and by that I mean, I sat in the car while he shopped, but we drove together.  My big outing.

Sunday I woke up feeling pretty rotten, but I had nowhere to go and all day to get there.  I watched sacrament meeting with the link Adam provided me and felt some better as the day progressed and I took my nausea medicine.

One definite bright spot in my life is the Twelve Days of Christmas Olivia gifted me with.  She brought a laundry basket full of twelve beautifully wrapped gifts.  (She is famously the gift wrapper extraordinaire in our family.)  In each box there is a lovely ornament--gnomes or Dala horses--that look right at home on our tree.  I showed them to QE over FaceTime and she loved them too.  Even better are the papers included which have quotes from prophets and apostles and other church leaders with messages of hope and peace and joy surrounding the birth and life of Jesus Christ.

It has been a wonderful, life giving gift from my sweet little sister.

I slept over 11 hours last night.  I still feel a little nauseous, but I think I can outlast it.  I'm grateful for the medicine I have because it helps.  Today I will go in to get more IV fluids.  

The beat goes on.