Bad to the bone?

That's how Deb's doing after her first administration of Taxol.
Not as nauseous as the Adriamycin/Cytoxan combo, but an entirely different set of side effects.

The differences in the treatments began before it was even given....Wednesday night (the night before chemo) Deb took some steroids as a pre-treatment. The treatment itself lasted much longer than the previous regiment. Deb was there getting her infusion from a bit after 9am until almost 4:30. Exhausting sitting there all day...and she almost ran through all of her batteries too - dvd player, ipod, phone, nintendo; you know the chemo tools of the 2000's...

With the first round of treatments she didn't really seem to feel any effects for a few days. This time, however, that evening she summed it up in a single word: weird.
And that's exactly how her feeling appeared to me. I was just watching her and I could tell that she wasn't feeling right...but it kind of makes sense...get infused with chems all day and feel weird all night, right?

By Friday and Saturday the weirdness progressed into pain, both in the bones and joints. And not just like her hands hurt, or her back hurts, or her legs hurt, but all of it is hurting. Deb made it with us to Ryan's gymnastics on Friday and we all went to the beach on Saturday which was just awesome. It was such a lovely day and Ryan and Jojo (and Deb & I) all had a blast just walking down the beach counting boats. Ryan was all about the water. "Want go in water NOW!"...so, we rolled up our pant legs and felt that cold cold Monterey Bay water. Funny how kids are not affected by things like really cold water. I had to physically remove the girl so that I could regain feeling in my feet. It was a really nice day for all of us, and Jojo got to stretch her legs for a much needed while.

Sunday, the all-over bone pain got worse and was accompanied by a wake-up nose bleed. Add to that a gray wintry rainy soggy Santa Cruz day - which always seems to increase the feelings of pain...Fan-freakin'-tastic :)

I'll quote Deb, "I think I prefer nausea to this."
So, that's where we are on this Monday morning.
I know, lame blog, but...