Jessie Blackburn

The first chemo session went quite well. All of the nurses and others were quite helpful, explained everything thoroughly and were quite supportive. We arrived  with enough snacks and reading material to supply the entire hospital for a week, but we were out by noon. Aside from a little screw up with the anti-nausea medications (where everyone at the hospital thought everyone else had phoned the prescriptions into the pharmacy), everything went swimmingly. As of 9:00 tonight, no significant side effects which bodes well for the new year. So Happy New Year everyone. We're all looking forward to a healthy 2020. 

Well, as the year 2020 dawns, Jessie rings it in by heading for her first chemo infusion on New Years Eve. While not looking forward to the chemo itself, she's envisioning the final elimination of any little stray cancerous cells that may have escaped surgery last month. The chemo goes for 16 weeks (every other week), followed by a month off, and then radiation for a month. Just starting out. Wait a month and we'll show off our bounty We're heading to the store to buy anything and everything that someone on chemo might want to eat, and battening down the hatches with lots of good books, movies and mysteries.  And thanks to a hydroponic garden from the kids for Christmas, we will soon be well stocked with veggies. (See the photo.) We had a great Christmas with all of the kids and various others (including a newly-inaugurated son-in-law who is also a nurse). Nurses Madeleine and Greg will be in the neighborhood to help out, and William will be returning for an extend...