Well, to sum up our time over the last few days, I am going to cut and paste David's email to family. I think he does the best job. All that I can add is that Kahlua tasted wonderful once we were all home safe and sound, and Michellie is re-energized and ready for a weekend of fun with Sam arriving Saturday morning.
Just to let you know things started smoothly in Antigonish today, (Thursday). The weather and roads were clear and Michellie received her chemo quickly and with no major side effects, they were discharged after lunch. They travelled up the road to run some errands in New Glasgow, but during the return trip, Michellie became ill and turned white. Michelle rushed her back to the ER in Antigonish, where she was found to be hypotensive and in shock!
So, they loaded her back up with more fluids and her support ‘cocktail’ which immediately knocked her out. Needless to say, the Doc was not going to let her go so easily this time, and both of them are spending the night in the hospital.
Michelle says Michellie is looking better, but is completely spaced out and mostly asleep.
There is still a Pentamadine inhalation scheduled for tomorrow, but I suppose that’s a wait-and-see thing.
It turns out that Michellie sailed through Days 2 & 3 so well that the Docs revised their orders and cut back on the IV fluids and ‘cocktail’ drugs. It appears they might have been overly optimistic!
We’re still hoping they’ll be home tomorrow (Friday) afternoon. Weather’s not looking too bad at this point, but flu season has arrived in Nova Scotia, so we will be keeping ourselves out of the public air until Michellie recovers from this latest round.
To complicate matters, the “Check Engine” light come on in the car when they were in New Glasgow! Fortunately, Michelle found a repair shop which diagnosed a minor problem and confirmed they were OK to carry on. “Could’ve Been Worse”! …STILL...!
And that’s the end of round three!
Take care
d
PS Our Pentamadine adventure today is worth a separate note. We headed for the negative pressure chamber at 9 for a 30 minute procedure. Once inside Michellie began inhaling the medicine, and the alarm went off for the room. Everything stopped while they investigated. They couldn't find anything, but there were 3 more alarms. After 90 minutes Michellie had not taken in most of the medicine, so the tech went back into the room to discover the mechanism she was breathing with was faulty. He came back from supplies with two new ones (just in case) and an hour later, she finally finished. We arrived back to Michellie's room at 11:45. After some pain killers, we were able to run out as quick as possible. Subway was swamped 20 deep in Antogonish, so there was a big sigh of relief on Michellie's face as we made the Subway at the Causeway. We were homeward bound and she was finally fed real food.
