Seattle Saturday

Today was a long day at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. We had to be there by 8:30am and didn't get out of there until just after 5pm. They had problems accessing her port again. They never did access the problematic 2nd side of the port. It was quite the ordeal. The poor little nurse was so frustrated that they couldn't get it to work for her. Mama received 2 units of blood and hydration. They were able to use the one side of the port and then had to start another temporary IV line. She is exhausted from the long day and trip, but she is doing fine. Her coloring is looking better with the new blood and hydration. Shortly after getting home, my cousin Julie (Mama's brother Frank's daughter) came. "Jewels" lives over in Palouse, WA. She drove over to spend some special time with Mama and to take care of her for a couple of days. We don't get to see Jewels as often as we would like, so Mama is thrilled to have some one on one time with her. Mama is to have her filter removed on Wednesday and the second round of chemo is scheduled to start on Thursday. Please pray that her red and white blood cell counts will recover quickly. She really needs that for this next week. We appreciate your prayers. Mama continues to get sweet cards, emails and blog comments. Thank you so much for your encouragement. Each one means so much to her, Daddy and our family.
With love,
Carmen