Manic Monday

Here we are at Atlanta Hematology and Oncology in the 105 building of Piedmont Hospital. The morning was kind of frantic getting out the door but we got here without any problems. We checked in at 9:00 am our pastor Rev Gardner came and had a chemo prayer with us and stayed to chat for a bit while they were getting Jarod settled which was nice. They had him in his chair and hooked up by 9:30 am and we started the process. We have our own private room which is really nice. Jarod says it's his Penthouse Suite. Haha

The treatment is actually going to be 6 hours today so we should be finished up by 3:30 pm. He is getting lots of fluids, 3 nausea medications and 3 chemo medications today. All the nursing staff is really nice and we have our schedule printed out for when what drug is given and what each day this week and the rest of the cycle will be like.

So far it is making him use the bathroom a lot but no other problems.

Jarod is healing fine from surgery we had noticed the incision was still really swollen and so we had the doctor look at it but it's fine just scar tissue and normal healing.

Mike Keyser came to visit Thursday night and Friday which was really nice for Jarod he felt good and it was great for all 3 of us to catch up. This weekend Jarod felt pretty good and so he went to down to his parents Friday night for dinner and went hunting Saturday morning. I guess because Jarod was doing so well on his own and we were in kind of a lull with just completing surgery and getting ready for chemo to start it all hit me at once and Friday and Saturday were very very hard emotional days for me and that turned my cold into fully blown laryngitis and sinus junk. So just as soon as Jarod is doing well and having a pretty normal weekend I get down. I was couch bound all day yesterday, but remarkably doing better (with a very horse voice) today. Jim Rhodes and Chelsea came down on Saturday evening and we visited. While we were on our way back from Marcy and Cleo's Saturday afternoon our friends Crystal Ben Susan and Nick stopped by and dropped off home made lasagna, salad, rolls and cheesecake!!! It was so nice of them and we enjoyed a very nice quite dinner at home with Jim and Chelsea which we didn't have to cook!

Other than that we are trucking along. We have a long list of side effects that could happen as early as the end of the week to Jarod from chemo but everyone processes this different so we will just see what happens. The path report came back from Indiana University where Lance Armstrongs Dr. Einhorn is conducting his 2nd opinion and it is what our docs thought it was. His markers taken last week came back elevated since the surgery. They said they can fluctuate but the chemo should make them go down quickly. If they do there is a chance we will only need 3 cycles but won't know for sure for at least 1-2 weeks.

Tomorrow Marcy is coming up to be with him, should be around 3:30 or 4:00 when he finishes up all week. I'll keep you posted as things move and develop. Thank you again to everyone for all the emails, calls, facebook messages, text messages, cards and visits we greatly appreciate it. We are making an effort to respond to as many people as quickly as possible but please know if you haven't heard from us directly we are very grateful and you will hear from us soon.

Thank you!

Lindsey & Jarod