Hello All,
Jess had two IV chemos done Friday. They went well. She had thought that she may need blood since she had been feeling so blucky; it ended up being a little low but not enough to get any, so hopefully she will pick up soon. She asked the doctor about taking supplements but they don't want her taking anything to help her cells pickup because it helps the cancer cells too. Crazy huh? They aslo put in a call to Portland about the PEG chemo. The doctors in Medford do not want to give it to her anymore because the reactions keep getting worse. The last one sure had was really bad. Hopefully Portland will agree. I wonder if they will sub in another chemo for it? Hmm...well we will see. She doesn't have the two IV chemos again until the 8th so she is pretty excited. I will only write on here if something pops up or if I have soemthing to say :) lol. Love to all and thanks for checking on Jess. Please keep her in your prayers. Cindi
P.S. There is an amazing article about Jess in the March issue of the Cascade Horseman Magazine by Maureen Thomas. Read it if you have a chance :)
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Feb 25th
Hello All,
Jess has been feeling more tired and achy everyday. She is thinking that she might actually need blood tomorrow because of how bad she has been feeling. She has been through a lot lately; so it wouldn't really surprise me. I hope that everything goes okay tomorrow, she sees her doctor, has chemo, and comes home. Wouldn't that be nice! She has to be in Medford tomorrow at 930 to get her blood drawn, see the doctor, and have two IV chemos, and then come home :) Please keep her in your prayers tonight and send her your strength! Thank you, Cindi xoxo
Jess has been feeling more tired and achy everyday. She is thinking that she might actually need blood tomorrow because of how bad she has been feeling. She has been through a lot lately; so it wouldn't really surprise me. I hope that everything goes okay tomorrow, she sees her doctor, has chemo, and comes home. Wouldn't that be nice! She has to be in Medford tomorrow at 930 to get her blood drawn, see the doctor, and have two IV chemos, and then come home :) Please keep her in your prayers tonight and send her your strength! Thank you, Cindi xoxo
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Feb 23rd
Hello to all,
Jess has been getting over the hives a little more each day, so that is good. Now she is having extreme body aches (which is better in my opinion), but she now has that to contend with. Tomorrow she goes in to get her picc dressing change, here in Klamath Falls. Friday morning she has to be in Medford at 930 am to get her blood drawn, then meets with the doctor, and has two different types of chemo. These two chemos did not seem to bother her last time, so hopefully she will have an easier weekend! Well, I am off for now. I will let you all know how she does on Friday or if anything else pops up...Please keep her in your prayers. Thank you all so much for caring!!
God Bless,
Cindi
Jess has been getting over the hives a little more each day, so that is good. Now she is having extreme body aches (which is better in my opinion), but she now has that to contend with. Tomorrow she goes in to get her picc dressing change, here in Klamath Falls. Friday morning she has to be in Medford at 930 am to get her blood drawn, then meets with the doctor, and has two different types of chemo. These two chemos did not seem to bother her last time, so hopefully she will have an easier weekend! Well, I am off for now. I will let you all know how she does on Friday or if anything else pops up...Please keep her in your prayers. Thank you all so much for caring!!
God Bless,
Cindi
Monday, February 22, 2010
Sun Feb 21st
Hello All,
Jess ended up in the ER in Medford Friday night. She just kept breaking out in hives, but at least she didn't have completely red skin, itchy eyes, and her tongue swelled earlier...They gave her more steroids and put her on a 4 hour dosage of Benadryl plus steroids in case it got any worse. I called and talked to her and she felt like they had it under control; she didn't think we needed to come over that night. Although, I didn't get any sleep worrying about her. When she came over to the house on Saturday morning I couldn't believe what she looked like. I have never seen anyone look like that. It wasn't just in her appearance it was in her eyes too. I had to hold myself back from crying. I could cry again just thinking about her. I swear that I thought I had made myself strong, but not seeing her like this. I know one thing that when she has to have this chemo again on days 20 and 21 both Pat and I are going to be with her. This was way too crazy of a reaction. She is looking a lot better today, but not as good as I would like. I am trying to keep her eating and drinking well, but it can be hard sometimes. She doesn't have chemo again until Friday, so she has a few days off. I really don't think that she could handle anymore sooner than that anyways. Please keep her in your prayers and send her positive energy.
Love to all,
Cindi
Jess ended up in the ER in Medford Friday night. She just kept breaking out in hives, but at least she didn't have completely red skin, itchy eyes, and her tongue swelled earlier...They gave her more steroids and put her on a 4 hour dosage of Benadryl plus steroids in case it got any worse. I called and talked to her and she felt like they had it under control; she didn't think we needed to come over that night. Although, I didn't get any sleep worrying about her. When she came over to the house on Saturday morning I couldn't believe what she looked like. I have never seen anyone look like that. It wasn't just in her appearance it was in her eyes too. I had to hold myself back from crying. I could cry again just thinking about her. I swear that I thought I had made myself strong, but not seeing her like this. I know one thing that when she has to have this chemo again on days 20 and 21 both Pat and I are going to be with her. This was way too crazy of a reaction. She is looking a lot better today, but not as good as I would like. I am trying to keep her eating and drinking well, but it can be hard sometimes. She doesn't have chemo again until Friday, so she has a few days off. I really don't think that she could handle anymore sooner than that anyways. Please keep her in your prayers and send her positive energy.
Love to all,
Cindi
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Friday Feb 19th
This is yesterdays post :)
Just wanted you all to know that Jess finally got her chemo today. They call about 945 this morning and expected her that are 1100?? I guess that they just don't know how far we live from Medford....They got over there about 100. They started to heavily medicate her so that she wouldn't have a reaction. It does seem like she is getting worse each time she has it. I called Jon about 230 and he said that she was doing well and sleeping heavily. Jess text me about 400 and said that they were heading this way. About 430 Jon called and said that they were headed back to the cancer center because Jess had thrown up and wasn't feeling well.
Pat and I waited anxiously to see what was going to happen and see if we needed to head over there. He called Jon about 6 and Jess answered. She got on the phone with me and told me that she ended up having a bad reaction. The nurse said she was getting ready to stick her with the epi pen! She had 3 doctors standing around her for 20 mins, watching her while they gave her more medicine. She said that she was scared! She said when she opened her eyes and they were unbelievably itch and she could only see yellow! She said that she started throwing up everywhere and down herself and couldn't stop. She didn't even feel it coming. Needless to say the doctors wanted her to stay the night so that if she had a problem she was already over there. Sooo...I will let you know how she is. I imagine I will be up half the night worrying about her. Please keep her in your prayers and send her your strength.
Love to all,
Cindi
Just wanted you all to know that Jess finally got her chemo today. They call about 945 this morning and expected her that are 1100?? I guess that they just don't know how far we live from Medford....They got over there about 100. They started to heavily medicate her so that she wouldn't have a reaction. It does seem like she is getting worse each time she has it. I called Jon about 230 and he said that she was doing well and sleeping heavily. Jess text me about 400 and said that they were heading this way. About 430 Jon called and said that they were headed back to the cancer center because Jess had thrown up and wasn't feeling well.
Pat and I waited anxiously to see what was going to happen and see if we needed to head over there. He called Jon about 6 and Jess answered. She got on the phone with me and told me that she ended up having a bad reaction. The nurse said she was getting ready to stick her with the epi pen! She had 3 doctors standing around her for 20 mins, watching her while they gave her more medicine. She said that she was scared! She said when she opened her eyes and they were unbelievably itch and she could only see yellow! She said that she started throwing up everywhere and down herself and couldn't stop. She didn't even feel it coming. Needless to say the doctors wanted her to stay the night so that if she had a problem she was already over there. Sooo...I will let you know how she is. I imagine I will be up half the night worrying about her. Please keep her in your prayers and send her your strength.
Love to all,
Cindi
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Feb 17th
Good evening all,
Jess ended up getting sick a couple of times last night, but then she seemed okay. She said that she slept pretty well, that was good to hear. They headed over to the cancer cent to get her PEG chemo and she started the pre-meds. Then after a hour they told her that the chemo never made it down from Portland??? Well needless to say, they were a little upset since they stayed over there and had to drive back home today. I have no idea what was up with that, but now it is set up for Thursday at 11 am. Jess asked me if there was anyway that I could take her so I hurried up and got n the phone to DeAnn and Teresa to see if they could get it all arranged for me and they did. I am so glad because I love to be with her and when she wanted me to go I knew that I had to get it done :) We will be leaving here around 830 or 900. Hopefully we will get started around 11. I would imagine that we won't get out of there until around 3, but we shall see. I am off for the night. Please keep her in your prayers and send her your strength and positive energy.
Love to all,
Cindi
Jess ended up getting sick a couple of times last night, but then she seemed okay. She said that she slept pretty well, that was good to hear. They headed over to the cancer cent to get her PEG chemo and she started the pre-meds. Then after a hour they told her that the chemo never made it down from Portland??? Well needless to say, they were a little upset since they stayed over there and had to drive back home today. I have no idea what was up with that, but now it is set up for Thursday at 11 am. Jess asked me if there was anyway that I could take her so I hurried up and got n the phone to DeAnn and Teresa to see if they could get it all arranged for me and they did. I am so glad because I love to be with her and when she wanted me to go I knew that I had to get it done :) We will be leaving here around 830 or 900. Hopefully we will get started around 11. I would imagine that we won't get out of there until around 3, but we shall see. I am off for the night. Please keep her in your prayers and send her your strength and positive energy.
Love to all,
Cindi
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Feb 16th
Hi All,
Today went smoothly. I felt crazy all day until Jess called me to let me know how she did. She went in first to get her picc line dressing changed and then she went to the cancer center to meet with her doctor. Her doctor was out for the day, so she had a new one and wasn't too happy. "Why send her to someone new and they ask her a million questions??" Her doctor will be back tomorrow so I would have just let it go, but oh well I guess she got through it. Anyways she headed over to chemo and she ended up having two IV pushes of chemo, so it went quickly. Then she went to get her spinal. She told me that she was really scared. She was sweating and getting nauseous just thinking about the procedure. When she got there, the first thing she asked was who the doctor was. She told me if it was the previous doctor that hurt her she was just going to get up and walk out because she wasn't going through that again. I told her that I totally understood. She asked the assistant and was told that it was one of the good doctors she has had before. So she started to relax. When she got there, he asked her a bunch of questions and he kept her mind off of the procedure, so she didn't think about it as much and it put her at ease. I can't tell you how happy I was to hear this and hear her voice :) She is staying the night over there and getting an early start on her 3 shot chemo, about 11 am. They have her on steroids tonight to get her started and then they said she will have more steroids and Benadryl tomorrow during the procedure. Plus she has to stay at least two hours after she is done to be observed. It will be a long day for her. Please keep her in your prayers and I will let you know how she does tomorrow.
Love,
Cindi
Today went smoothly. I felt crazy all day until Jess called me to let me know how she did. She went in first to get her picc line dressing changed and then she went to the cancer center to meet with her doctor. Her doctor was out for the day, so she had a new one and wasn't too happy. "Why send her to someone new and they ask her a million questions??" Her doctor will be back tomorrow so I would have just let it go, but oh well I guess she got through it. Anyways she headed over to chemo and she ended up having two IV pushes of chemo, so it went quickly. Then she went to get her spinal. She told me that she was really scared. She was sweating and getting nauseous just thinking about the procedure. When she got there, the first thing she asked was who the doctor was. She told me if it was the previous doctor that hurt her she was just going to get up and walk out because she wasn't going through that again. I told her that I totally understood. She asked the assistant and was told that it was one of the good doctors she has had before. So she started to relax. When she got there, he asked her a bunch of questions and he kept her mind off of the procedure, so she didn't think about it as much and it put her at ease. I can't tell you how happy I was to hear this and hear her voice :) She is staying the night over there and getting an early start on her 3 shot chemo, about 11 am. They have her on steroids tonight to get her started and then they said she will have more steroids and Benadryl tomorrow during the procedure. Plus she has to stay at least two hours after she is done to be observed. It will be a long day for her. Please keep her in your prayers and I will let you know how she does tomorrow.
Love,
Cindi
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