At the cancer center again with all the other cancer patients and the chit-chat and the tv noise and the waiting. Waiting for over an hour now; this place always seems to busy and behind schedule. All the other times we haven’t waited next to chatty cathy’s but today we next to one who wants to talk about her cancer and how the lord is teaching us lessons. Thankfully someone sat down closer to her so she can ramble to them about her cancer and her hospital stays and how the lord took away her cancer the first time and blah blah blah.
Being confined to a waiting room for long periods surrounded by people in various stages of cancer is so very tedious. The majority of those here are over 50 years of age.
He’s getting chemo via IV at the cancer center today, whenever they finally call him back. We got here at about 11:30 and the earliest we’ll probably get out of here is 3 p.m.
This is the first time he’s getting this kind of chemo so we’ll have to see how he feels when we get back home.
Here a rough view of his chemo cycles:
Days 1-3: chemo in the hospital via picc line and chemo via spinal tap Day 2.
Day 8: outpatient spinal tap chemo at the hospital
Day 11: chemo at the cancer center
The cycle starts all over on day 21, he’ll do this for the next 5-6 months. On days he doesn’t have chemo he’s getting various shots or blood taken or visits with the dr or nurse practitioner at the cancer center. Since this first round started we’ve had 2 days off – last weekend. We should have this weekend off too. Hopefully next week he’ll feel better than he has since he started since he wont have any chemo treatments until he goes back in the hospital.
Now we’re waiting to see the nurse practitioner in an exam room. We’ve been here nearly 2 hours without anything being done yet. After seeing the nurse practitioner we’ll be waiting again back in the waiting room for him to get called back for his chemo treatment which will probably last about 2 hours.
Chris and I didn’t get to spend lots of time together before since I was either at work or in class or studying most of the time. Now we have lots of time together but it’s in an all together different context then we could have imagined.
I miss the overwhelming logic of physics and math. I miss tests and quizzes and learning new things. I’ll get back to it I know. Once this cycle is over and I’ll know more about how to predict my time and Chris’ needs I can set aside some time to study math and physics so that it will be fresh when I do go back to school.
ad astra per aspera 