Taken Aback and Moving Forward

This past week was a little crazy.

("A little" may be a bit of an understatement,
but we'll stick with it for now.)

To be honest I think that neither Kyle nor I was 
prepared for the violent effects of this new cocktail
of chemo.

It totally pulled the rug out from under us, mostly
Kyle, but since we all tag along for the ride...well,
all of us.

Kyle lost 10 pounds in one week of being sick and
not being able to keep food down.

Joan (his P.A.) called and said, "Kyle we can't have 
you loosing 10 pounds."

(They like to keep some meat on their cancer patients,
it helps make them more attractive)  (wink)

So they're going to try some new "Pre Meds" next week
at chemo.  

(We are on his off week-thank goodness).

Kyle is slowly coming back from the edge of who knows
what and eating again and feeling more like his "old
self".

We keep pushing ice cream and high calorie food
his way and telling him to "Mangia!  Mangia!"
(Italian for "Eat!"  "Eat!")

He (amazingly) is bouncing back from this round
with more information and armed with some new 
knowledge about how to stay ahead of the sickness
and nausea.

I think we were both so blind sided because 
he has (quite literally, and now we see LUCKILY)
breezed through his other rounds of chemo.

Sure, he was tired and run down for a few days,
but nothing prepared us for what chemo could 
actually do to a body.

I guess we count 13 months of "easy chemo" and 
call it pretty darn good.

So even though we were taken aback, we are 
preparing to move forward, hopefully more
prepared.

If not prepared, at least we know what to expect
with this chemo.

And there's our update for today.