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Jan. 17th, 2010 11:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mamajoanMom started chemo last Monday. So far, knock on wood, it seems to be not-too-bad. She basically seems to have had one day of feeling like utter crap, then a couple days of feeling moderately crappy and very tired. By today, six days later, we spent the day at her house and she seemed fine. I mean we only did calm quiet stuff -- she spent a lot of time sitting and watching football with Isaac -- but I think from the kids' point of view she was pretty much her usual self, which I hope was reassuring for them.
Isaac has been having some "behavioral issues" at home and school, which I wonder how much of it is related to worry about his grandma. I don't really know what to make of that or do about it. She still has five more chemo treatments, three weeks apart; and if this first time is any indication, she's not going to be able to spend the Wednesdays with Isaac that he's used to, at least the first one after each treatment -- I think that if all goes as it has been going, she'll be fine for the next two Wednesdays, but that still means that every third one is going to be different and that will be hard for him. :(
Anyway, getting back to mom, so I really hope that this first cycle is indicative of how it's going to be each time. Because, although the couple of bad days did suck, they were nowhere near as bad as they could have been. Of course, that's easy for me to say since I didn't actually experience them! -and maybe mom is downplaying it for my benefit, but I don't think so. So, keep your fingers crossed that the rest of chemo will go equally smoothly, and will fly right by and be over before we know it. Oy.
In other news, it's January 17th and I have already read five books in 2010. Go me! :) Also I don't think I mentioned that I started reading chapter books with Isaac, a chapter or two per night. We read James and the Giant Peach and Pippi Longstocking and now we're starting on Alice in Wonderland. Isaac is really enjoying it. Ruthie OTOH has no patience for it, alas, but she has to suffer through it anyway. heh.
OK, enough for now.
Isaac has been having some "behavioral issues" at home and school, which I wonder how much of it is related to worry about his grandma. I don't really know what to make of that or do about it. She still has five more chemo treatments, three weeks apart; and if this first time is any indication, she's not going to be able to spend the Wednesdays with Isaac that he's used to, at least the first one after each treatment -- I think that if all goes as it has been going, she'll be fine for the next two Wednesdays, but that still means that every third one is going to be different and that will be hard for him. :(
Anyway, getting back to mom, so I really hope that this first cycle is indicative of how it's going to be each time. Because, although the couple of bad days did suck, they were nowhere near as bad as they could have been. Of course, that's easy for me to say since I didn't actually experience them! -and maybe mom is downplaying it for my benefit, but I don't think so. So, keep your fingers crossed that the rest of chemo will go equally smoothly, and will fly right by and be over before we know it. Oy.
In other news, it's January 17th and I have already read five books in 2010. Go me! :) Also I don't think I mentioned that I started reading chapter books with Isaac, a chapter or two per night. We read James and the Giant Peach and Pippi Longstocking and now we're starting on Alice in Wonderland. Isaac is really enjoying it. Ruthie OTOH has no patience for it, alas, but she has to suffer through it anyway. heh.
OK, enough for now.
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