Fast Report on First Chemo

Nothing to report! We were there from 11 to 430, due to a malfunction of his port, but they fixed it. They dripped in the two new poisons--Carboplatin and Paxitaxel, aka Taxol--and handed me all the sheets of warnings which were 5 pages of warnings for each drug.

And now we just wait. He's loaded up with anti-nausea and steroids tonight, so tonight was great. He even sat and TALKED TO ME for a whole hour! I never get THAT much time from him! Yayyyyy! I was very happy!

Except that we did end up on the subject of funeral homes (I'm against them; he's for them) and buying burial plots or was the backyard legal (he refuses to be cremated) and did we know anyone who would make a coffin (in his old church you were supposed to be buried in a coffin handmade by a church brother or sister) and where in the world could he be buried where I could visit him every day and, I'm against embalmment and he is for it, and I'm for the old Orthodox practice of reading Psalms over the person the whole night after they perish, and then burying them unembalmed the next day, and he thinks that's crazy altogether, and then we flipped it around to what if I die first, in, say, a car wreck, then what are MY preferences, and wow, see, these are the kinds of conversations you start having at a certain point.

GULP.

But back to the chemo thing: So for 7 days, I record in a notebook his reactions, then thereafter, we know what to expect each day of each week. I'll post as soon as any reaction happens. The night of the reaction, I will post, so if I don't post, it means nothing happened. We don't have the least idea what to expect any more, all new drugs.

See? I had nuthin to say! Thank you for every thought, every beam of love, every prayer, every hope on his behalf. We love you like kwayzeeeeee.