We had a nice family Christmas, spending time at home and visiting my parents nearby to drop off some gifts. My Mom cooked Pho and we all ate lunch bowls of Pho. We spent this rest of the day, just relaxing, playing and cooking dinner at home. It was nice and simple. Since the kids still are recovering from their almost two weeks cold and coughs, I'm glad we forgo the all day laboring over cooking a turkey and entertaining. Once a couple of years ago, I spent a whole day in the kitchen, cooking all day long, the turkey and everything else. It was a lot of work with tons of left over.
I'm still fighting over the same cold and cough like the kids. This miserable cold and cough, it's so hard to shake off. With a chemo body, already weak, it'll most likely take double the time to soothe it down and hopefully with lots of rest and orange juice, it'll be gone.
An Evening at the ER
Yesterday, my son suddenly woke up with awful, unrelenting stomach flu or gastroenteritis. By evening, while sick all day long, with continuous bouts of vomiting and diarrhea, we grew overly worried and finally after calls to the nurseline, they had recommended us to take him to the nearest ER. Unlucky for us, my many pages to our family pediatrician went unanswered and I guess, since Dec 25 fell on a Sunday this year, many Doctor's offices had taken yesterday, Dec 26, as a holiday. What bad timing. In the middle of cooking dinner, I had to pause everything, turned off the half cooked string beans and in 2 minutes, sipped my dinner bowl of rice porridge down my tummy so that I can rush my poor dehydrated Ethan to see a doctor. What a scary day. I was terrified with worry.
Finally after a few hours and an anti nausea medicine, he was better and we went home. Whew! He's feeling much better today and I'm keeping a good eye on him, giving him plenty of fluids and small amount soft foods.
My condalescences to Emily Wong
A few days ago right before Christmas, I shockingly learned of a dear friend, Emily Wong had passed away peacefully from lung cancer. It shook me pretty hard. Learning of her death sadded and scared me. When I was first diagnosed with this dreaded disease, it was her that reached out to me and called me on my phone. Our conversation went on for over an hour as she told me of her story and how to cope and live with the same lung cancer. I'm forever grateful for her friendly, kind love and hope she gave us all at the Lung Cancer Support group. She will be missed. It was her who created and started the Stanford Lung Cancer Group. She was a 5 1/2 year stage 4 lung cancer fighter and dedicated herself to helping and reaching out to almost every lung cancer patient to knew. My hearts go out to her family. You can read her incredible, detail legacy battle she kept at www.godincontrol.bravehost.com/
My Treatment
After a week break from the Gemzar chemo, I am back to my regular routine chemo and Dr Neal appointment tomorrow. I'm happy that my friend Ramona will accompany me again. Hopefully my bood counts and labs will turn out good and I will get another round of chemo. Thanks again for your support, love and prayers. Lots of Love. I'll be writing soon about a Spaghetti fundraiser that you can help be apart of soon. More of that soon as now I'm off to see my polmonologist.
I'm still fighting over the same cold and cough like the kids. This miserable cold and cough, it's so hard to shake off. With a chemo body, already weak, it'll most likely take double the time to soothe it down and hopefully with lots of rest and orange juice, it'll be gone.
An Evening at the ER
Yesterday, my son suddenly woke up with awful, unrelenting stomach flu or gastroenteritis. By evening, while sick all day long, with continuous bouts of vomiting and diarrhea, we grew overly worried and finally after calls to the nurseline, they had recommended us to take him to the nearest ER. Unlucky for us, my many pages to our family pediatrician went unanswered and I guess, since Dec 25 fell on a Sunday this year, many Doctor's offices had taken yesterday, Dec 26, as a holiday. What bad timing. In the middle of cooking dinner, I had to pause everything, turned off the half cooked string beans and in 2 minutes, sipped my dinner bowl of rice porridge down my tummy so that I can rush my poor dehydrated Ethan to see a doctor. What a scary day. I was terrified with worry.
Finally after a few hours and an anti nausea medicine, he was better and we went home. Whew! He's feeling much better today and I'm keeping a good eye on him, giving him plenty of fluids and small amount soft foods.
My condalescences to Emily Wong
A few days ago right before Christmas, I shockingly learned of a dear friend, Emily Wong had passed away peacefully from lung cancer. It shook me pretty hard. Learning of her death sadded and scared me. When I was first diagnosed with this dreaded disease, it was her that reached out to me and called me on my phone. Our conversation went on for over an hour as she told me of her story and how to cope and live with the same lung cancer. I'm forever grateful for her friendly, kind love and hope she gave us all at the Lung Cancer Support group. She will be missed. It was her who created and started the Stanford Lung Cancer Group. She was a 5 1/2 year stage 4 lung cancer fighter and dedicated herself to helping and reaching out to almost every lung cancer patient to knew. My hearts go out to her family. You can read her incredible, detail legacy battle she kept at www.godincontrol.bravehost.com/
My Treatment
After a week break from the Gemzar chemo, I am back to my regular routine chemo and Dr Neal appointment tomorrow. I'm happy that my friend Ramona will accompany me again. Hopefully my bood counts and labs will turn out good and I will get another round of chemo. Thanks again for your support, love and prayers. Lots of Love. I'll be writing soon about a Spaghetti fundraiser that you can help be apart of soon. More of that soon as now I'm off to see my polmonologist.
I'm so sorry to hear about Emily Wong. I hope that her family will get through this difficult time. No doubt, she sounded like a fighter, just like you. Along with your husband and kids. And yes, stomach flus are never fun...
ReplyDeleteI hope your cold and coughs ease in the next few days!