Another guest blog today. It has been an up and down day, with unfortunately more down than up. Stine was awake at 0500 and feeling quite hot, and we removed the 5-FU bag mid-morning. This cycle has hit Stine the hardest with quite a bit of pain and what she is calling “chemo head” where she has severe headaches and what I call mental “swimming.” She got up for a bit in the afternoon to do some gardening, which Chess…
When I woke up this morning I was feeling blue. I got only five hours of sleep. It was hard to find a good position for my head. When the chemo is working it’s way in, on the worst days it feels like my head is not screwed on right. I can’t for the best of me find a comfortable position no matter how hard I try. While tossing and turning I started thinking of a good childhood memory. Just…
I will be your guest blogger today as Stine is feeling a bit weak. Heading into a chemotherapy cycle is like driving into a tunnel. It will be dark, you want to slow-down, and there simply isn’t anything you can do but go forward. Outside of Norwegian tunnels there is a sign that lets you know the tunnel length, so you get a bit of an idea how long you are going to be underground. In Stine’s case, we now…
I am alas not as full today as I was yesterday. Tuesday two weeks ago I was less hungry than I am today. Walking around feeling full all day yesterday made my stomach want more and it is not happy about getting only cucumber and celery for snacks. I am very much looking forward to my low cal cottage pie I will have for dinner soon – very soon. Even if my stomach is not so full today my heart…
Leaving doors open on a warm day obviously enticed a Norwegian of a smaller and hairier kind to enter without invitation. Chess has had one of the most exciting days of his life – starting with pouncing, barking and heavy wagging of tail in the movie room right after breakfast. After a discombobulated morning with about an hour of chasing and screaming (I was the only one screaming) we were sure the little beast had escaped back out. Chess tried…