Appointment with oncologist

Friday we saw the oncologist, Dr. Posada. He's seems like such a nice man. He gives us plenty of time and treats us with respect. Anyway, he seems very happy with how Bob has been improving and, as I thought, ordered another round of chemo. This is really good, because when we first started this, there was always the possibility that the chemo wouldn't help at all, and we wouldn't do more than one round. But so far so good, and so we'll keep it up.

Bob had gained 5 pounds. I thought it was 8, but that was on two different scales. This increase is on the same scale, so it is truly 5 pounds. But that's still really good.

Bob has been getting blood work every week and Dr. Posada talked to us about how his levels are all good. His nutrition level is normal, as is everything else. His red blood cells and everything are fine. So that's all good too.

Today we are both having a tired kind of weekend. I took Saturday night off work, and slept all night and have been laying around in bed all day. I feel kind of bad for not taking care of more stuff, but also, am realistic that if my body says you're tired, stay in bed, I probably should.

Bob has been coughing a lot today which wears him out. We have talked to all the doctors about it and they all don't know of anything else that will help other than what we are currently doing, which is giving him Sudaphed every 4-5 hours. They all also say that it's good he can cough, that they really worry when people lose the ability to cough because that can lead to pneumonia.

A word about the Sudaphed too. You know these days you have to show your driver's license and sign and almost get fingerprinted to buy it. Every time I pick it up at the pharmacy, I am the only one who has bought it. I can tell because it's just a line of my signature down the book I have to sign. And I'm talking about over a period of weeks. I feel like it's only a matter of time before the sheriff's department shows up at my house looking for a meth lab.

Later, :-)