Happy New Year everyone. We hope your holidays were filled with great times with family and friends. We were able to spend time with both our families over the past month. We got back from Michigan on Sunday night...just in time for John to watch the Eagles beat the Vikings.
Now that all the holiday fun is behind us, it's back into the swing of things for us. John started his 2nd cycle of chemo on Monday. The nausea is a little worse this time around, and his hair is thinning out a lot. Also his blood counts are all pretty low (especially the white count and absolute neutrophil count). Basically this means that his risk for infection is pretty high. After the weekend of travels he ended up with a sore throat with some white spots and some post nasal drip, so they started him on antibiotics this week. Hopefully the infection won't get any worse.
As for me, I started my new shift this week. I am now on 11a-11p three times a week, with every other weekend 7a-7p. No more nights for me. I actually liked the night shift and the people I worked with, but I didn't love having to sleep for a day to make up for each shift. So far so good. I forgot how busy day shifts can be.
Well, off to bed for me. We'll keep this posted as John progresses through Cycle 2.
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