Photographic Evidence

Becca here...

Mom is intent on proving to Catherine that Max exists in his full big smiles and muscles glory. Funnily enough, she almost wasn't able to disprove Catherine's theory that he was made up. Earlier in the day she has snapped a pic of him with her camera but when we went to download it he had disappeared all vampire-like. Luckily we were able to track him down and give technology another go. So there you are Catherine... :-)

Just like Max, some of Mom's side effects began to reappear as soon as Catherine left. (Maybe she should have just permanently stayed ;-) ). It started with a rough night: between a bad reaction to benedryl and a broken/beeping pump I don't think either Mom or Amy slept a wink.

Couple that with a shot of Demerol after an episode of chills/rigors and Mom got to entertain me yet again with a totally loopy, slushy-mouthed, falling asleep every couple of words conversation. Katie (one of our favorite nurses) and I passed the time for a awhile comparing nonsensical things that she had said to each of us that morning. But by mid-afternoon she was pretty much back to her clear-headed self, other than the effects of exhaustion.

The return of the diarrhea was more of a bummer, but even that was much better behaved than in past cycles. And her BP, though lower than normal obviously (99/44 or so) kept steady.

She had her 7 am dose but then they held off at 3 pm. Amazingly Katie thinks she'll still get one or two more this week which would either tie her for the most or be the most she's received in any cycle. So much for stopping early this cycle!! Amazing what coming back to this at full strength can do.

Hopefully tomorrow is more of the same.

8 for 10 of 14 doses. Amazing.