Tuesday Update

Today was a very long day for Sandi. She was supposed to have her PET SCAN this morning and it kept getting pushed back. At first that happened because her blood sugar was way too high and that took several rounds of insulin to push it down. All while she could not eat or drink, have her blood pressure pills, or anything. Finally, when it was low enough, those in radiology at Medical City Dallas decided it would be better to have her do it tomorrow. Fortunately, her cancer doctor learned of this and got things back on track.

This PET SCAN that was finally accomplished this evening is important as he will compare it to the one back in December that first detected the cancer so that he can chart the explosive growth. It also serves as a baseline for treatment from this point.  They also could not start chemo until that was done.

Tonight she is getting her first food of the day (hopefully way better than last night) and will be watching NCIS and trying to relax. It looks like the new plan is to hold off on the start of chemo until tomorrow morning because everything got fouled up today.

This also means they can finally give her some pain med. 

Apparently the port was wrong for chemo at Medical City so now they have installed something called a PIC LINE into the muscle of her right forearm. This allows them to hit her with two chemo drugs at the same time as the port only allows one at a time.


So, its been a long day of hurry up and wait today. Hopefully, tomorrow she can finally start the chemo.


I hope this all makes sense. I am absolutely exhausted. Part of it is the stress, but a major part is the physical effort for me. It is taking a huge toll already and we have just started things. Does not bode well at all.


9 PM UPDATE----Sandi says they have started the premeds into her. That is the anti nausea stuff and some other things and usually puts her to sleep. They plan on giving her the first chemo drug about ten tonight.