Sunday: A Little Bit of Uh-Oh....

Okay, it's not a major crash-and-burn, but we definitely are experiencing a small set-back today.

He feels kind of like a truck ran over him--indescribably tired--and the soft palate of his mouth hurt last night, and today his stomach feels burny. But no nausea, still!

As I type this, he is lying on the sofa, where I made him a super comfy little nest, and I brought him some crackers and cheese, and he is watching the Jets-Patriots football game. I told him I was planning to make spaghetti for dinner, and he is all in favor of that, so that shows you that he's not TOO terribly bad.

I have a little notebook in which I write everything he feels and what time and date he feels it, so that he can most accurately plan his future treatments so as not to interfere with his classes.

Today, for example, I asked him through the afternoon, "If this were a teaching day, could you have made it?" and so far, he says he could have. That would mean that if he got his Cisplatin on a Monday, he could still teach on Wednesday.

In a severely serendipitous development, Monday his school is closed! God bless Martin Luther King! So he gets a whole 'nother day of rest tomorrow, and has no classes until Wednesday.

The only other thing really bothering him is what the chemo nurses warned us about: chemo brain. Your memory gets really spotty for certain things, like if you don't CONCENTRATE when you put keys down, you never find them again.....not saying that we've lost BOTH post office keys, an office key, all his car keys, and all but ONE of my SUV keys so far....

I think I shall become the Queen Mother of All Keys, now that we're down to just ONE key in all the world. (We've looked EVERYwhere!)

But apart from all that, he is doing stunningly well, and I'm happy beyond everything I expected for this weekend! Thanks for being happy, too.

Love to each and every.

B&B