First treatment in Lawton is done!

Today worked very well, but it was a long day. We got up before 6 to get ready and leave to be in Lawton by 8. Since this was our first day to do chemo there we had paperwork to complete everywhere. First we have to go to the doctor’s office to do lab work and then he okay’s the orders for us to go on over to Comanche County Memorial Hospital to do the chemo treatments in their outpatient area.

My infection fighter numbers were low. The bottom of the good range is 2 and the lowest they will usually let have the treatment is 1.5. Mine was 1.43. Since I’m not having any problems they made an exception and let me have the treatment. It would have been a bummer to have to turn around and come home without it! They let Ruthie and Phil and Don all come into the treatment room while I had my treatment. I was the lucky one: I got 3 blankets and went to sleep. They all sat there and grew icicles. Everything went really well. After the chemo treatment we went right over to have the MRI on my brain done. I slept through that, too, so I got my naps today!

We finally got to eat a meal at Golden Coral around 4, so that was lunch and supper. (They had given me a tray and I had a veggie sandwich during the chemo treatment.) Since we ate so late, we only ate ice cream at home tonight, so we didn’t have to fool with another meal. Today we were up and on the road for 12 hours; what a day! I’m glad Ruthie and Phil could go with us so that they have a better clue of what is happening and the kind of care we’re getting. Everyone was very, very nice.

I still have enough hair to go in public. Gretta fussed at me for not putting my picture on from yesterday, so I’ll put one on tonight. I’ll also put one on of Ruthie combing my hair tonight. I’m putting another on of my mom, who we call Mamasan. It was taken when she was 67 (She died at 69 with pneumonia, not breast cancer.) I look at this picture of Mom and this picture of Ruthie and I and I think I agree with Trish; if Ruthie had Mom’s hair, she’d be the one who looks the most like her. You see what you think for fun. We are blessed to have had a wonderful mom and we are both pleased and proud to be anything like her. As ever, we are counting our blessings! Thank you for your prayers for our safe travels today and a good treatment day. I guess I will learn the results of the MRI next week when we go to the doctor’s office. Please pray that my numbers won’t go so low that they won’t let me have treatments. I really want to keep this ‘show on the road,’ as my dad would say!