Happy Birthday Matt!!!!

Matt's Birthday was yesterday.  He is 13 now!  I can't believe how quickly time has gone by.  I love you little man. :-D  It was a fun weekend.  We went to my brothers (both of them) and had BBQ & cake.  My friend Margaret came over and Cathy (our neice) came in late from Lubbock but was still able to join us.  Mark sang us a few songs - he was great!!  He and his bandmates have a gig at EMO's, sometime in September, which apparently is a really big thing for their type of music- so congrats to the group,  Oh No the Radio!!  Here is a list of their upcoming gigs in case anyone can make it out to support them -

Oh-No-The-Radio on Facebook

RED7 August 17th 9:30 FREE show any ages. 611 East 7th Street

REDEYEDFLY August 19th 9:00 5$ for adults 8$ for minors. ALL AGES. 715 Red River Street

Went to work today.  I felt pretty good, a little tired, but pretty good.  I had to leave a little early to see my surgeon.  Still retaining fluid in the right surgery sight, so I am having to go in and get it drained.  Next appointment for that is Thursday!  ARGH!  The plus side, I love my doctor--if you ever need surgery go to Dr. Jack Walzel!  He is awesome! 

I am hoping I will feel well enough to work the whole week, since my next round of chemo is next Tuesday.  I did fairly well with the chemo except that I was tired, pretty much the entire cycle.  I never throw up, just felt like a few times.  I took the meds the Dr gave me so that helped a lot. The worst I felt was the first weekend after the chemo..I had major heartburn.  It was awful, worse than when I was pregnant with the kids. I went by the doctors office and got some good meds for that too.  I go tomorrow to get my labs done so they can see where my white blood count is.  Last week it was just a little low, so the Nurse practitioner said it would be lower this week.  I don't know what they do if it is too low??

Have a great week!
Hugs,
Yolanda

P.S. Good luck to my lil sis - Yvonne - Hope you did well on your exam!

Not feeling well...again!!!! and Thanks!

^#*%$(%)  The chemo had made me pretty tired, a little nauseous.  I had major heartburn this weekend...according to my Oncologist- it was his fault :-D  He said the steroids he gave me to help offset the chemo were what did that to me.  Then I started feeling nauseous tonight, can't sleep.  ARGH!!!  I was going to try to go to work tomorrow, now, I don't know what is going to happen.  Dammit!  I am so sick of this crap!  Took some of my million meds, hopefully that will help.

Okay, enough of the pity party!!  I shaved my head this weekend, rather my little brother shaved my head this weekend.  I was sad, I cried, I think we all did in our own way.  I look weird (I think I do), guess it's mostly because I am not used to seeing myself without any hair. Mom kept telling me not to cut my hair, to wait and see if it would fall out, but the doctor had already told me it would be happening, I didn't think I could handle seeing my hair falling out.  I don't think Matt would be able to handle it either.  Anyway, NOW...my head is cold!! LOL!!! 

Big thank you to my wonderful friend Janet Calhoun and her friend, Sandra Bennight for bringing food for us tonight and for tomorrow.  What a blessing to have such wonderful friends.

While I am sending out my thank you's...please visit and contribute if you can to my friend Barb Edwards, as she walks to raise money to fight breast cancer. Barb's Komen 3Day blog

And, last but not least...I thank my family.....
Abel, honey thank you for taking such good care of me every night especially, when I complain about the sheets not being straight or that it's too hot, and rubbing my back. I love you!

Devan-for being the second mama in the house. Taking care of your brother, handling appointments, making sure his chores are done and for taking care of the house stuff.  I would be lost without you baby. I love you!

Matt-for getting me fresh water everytime you come around me and checking up on me and being nice to your sister. I love you sweetie :-D

Mom-for being mom.  For taking care of me, trying to make me feel better and telling me everything will be okay. I love you.

Cathy-(our niece) for making sure I take the right meds, making me breakfast, taking me to dr's appointments and helping your uncle and your cousins...I love you!

Vic-for doing something that I am sure was very hard for you to do, but you did anyway.  Shaving me.  I love you baby. 

Noni-for talking when I just need to talk and vent.  I love you!

Sorry it was so long tonight....it was this our give in to the temptation to throw up....   :-D

P.S. Congrats to my friend Michelle Vanderwalle- She is pregnant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hugs,
Yolanda

Sleep-ramblings for the day

I feel like all I have done is sleep.  I am so tired.  Today, I have been feeling a little nauseous today.  I hadn't felt this bad all week.  YUK!!!  Going to get my head shaved today...I'll be damned if the cancer is going to take my hair too! That's going on my terms!! My little brother is going to come help me and Abel.  I imagine that it will be really hard, but I don't know that I can handle the alternative. I don't think I could handle seeing my hair on my pillow or in the shower and I don't know how my kids would re-act to it either.

Nothing tastes good today.  I am sort of hungry, but scared to eat.  I don't have a taste for anything in particular...I want something cold, maybe a popsicle?

I wanted to go back to work tomorrow..I don't know if that is going to happen.  I feel so tired all the time, I don't know how much I will be able to accomplish at work.  I hope I don't feel nauseous tomorrow too.  ARGH!  This is so frustrating!  Oh yeah, and I have been a big ball baby all weekend.  Anything  can set me off, the f'n commercial, Matt smiling at me in his silly way, Devan laughing.. What the hell is wrong with me???????? I have heartburn from hell...who knows what I was able to eat that caused that!

Obviously, today was not a good day to post, so I hope you all have a better day.  I love my family and my friends and I thank you all for the wonderful thoughts and prayers.  Special thanks to Barb Edwards for the wonderful meal Thursday.  It was delicious!!

Hugs,
Yolanda