This is a day late and a dollar short but I didn’t feel like posting last night.  We went to Hospital Puebla to have the picc line put in! I was the first to a room and close to the last to go into the surgery room!

I thought I had a pic of the hospital outside but here is the view from my room!

This is the biggest rooms I’ve seen. It had  a bed, a couch, a chair, and two closets with a huge shower and handicap bathroom (sorta)!

My readings for the day were: 9:30 am bp 120/80 temp 36.6C and pulse ox 93 but by the time I got in the room to wait for surgery I think I read 140/80 and I know the wait had nothing to do with it!!

We got to the apartment around 4pm and I was very tired so that’s why I posted today.  I had Chriss a little scared & worried cause he was ready to take me to the hospital because I was hurting on both shoulders!  I wanted the line in my right side since I use my left most, they tried on the right but my clavacal (collar bone) was hiding the veins!  Got it in the left anyway! That just puts more pressure on Chriss on getting me up!  Two more days!!

Got my booster shot at 7:30pm bp was 124/60   36.9C

This is it for this post and I will work on today’s!

Another day just like the day before but with a lot of lower back pain.  I think maybe I’ve sat in this chair to long!  Things will change tomorrow cause it is going to get hectic.  They will put my picc line in tomorrow at Hospital Puebla and I have to be there at 8am.  I will try to post at some point that night.

Don’t know what I have done to my phone but Mom and Dad haven’t been able to call me, it goes straight to voice mail and it costs me a $1.00/minute to call them and/or check my voicemail.  Screwed either way but I can call them and if I have too, I will pay the cost. Got to have my daily parent fix! We are going to try Skyping tomorrow and see if that works. We shall see!

My readings for today were a little high and am hoping it is because of the back pain!

7:30 am blood pressure 145/80 temp 36.5C

8:00 pm blood pressure 158/78 temp 36.4C

Closing for tonight and wish me luck and keep me in your prayers because the next 3 days will be tough!

Another day has come and almost gone!  I bragged too soon about nausea, but then it could be Chriss’ cooking. Not really, that’s a joke.  I think I need to avoid the spicy food tho.  I know some of the patients have gone sightseeing today but I have decided to stay in and keep my strength for the treatment and recouping.  Also, I don’t want Chriss to have to push me around.

The nurse was here this morning at 8:30am and my readings were blood pressure  126/73 and temp  36.6C.

They were back again at 7:30pm and my readings were blood pressure 129/71 and temp  36.3C.

I can tell I was given steroids in the chemo cause I ballooned up more than what I was. Oh well, got to lose some weight when I get back!

All looking good so far. Watching TV as long as I can understand it.

Good night!

Today started bright and early at 7:40am getting on the bus to travel to the clinic. (Mom you will be happy to know I have been eating a slice of toast every morning!) Hooked up to the last chemo drip and now back at apartment resting.

Tomorrow starts the filgrastim (mobilizer) shot to make me produce more stem cells than normal.  The nurse will be here every 12 hours, oh boy!

I don’t have to have the i.v. left in the arm, I got it out today. I can rest better with it out but still have to drink lots of water so many trips to bathroom speaking of which gotta go!(Shadow that reference is for you I miss my little fur baby!!) I’m back!!

Shadow hasn’t missed me according to Mom and Dad but I sure have him!  He got loose not too soon after getting to their house slipped right thru Dad’s legs. My baby might be growing up cause he didn’t run away! Dad let him out again the next day and he stayed in the yard. He was sure unhappy the next day cause Dad worked at my house and he didn’t get to get out of his pen.

One of the girls in the group, Jamie,  is having a birthday tomorrow and we plan on meeting by the pool to help her celebrate!

Miss everyone back home!

This is the original Dr. Ruiz that founded the clinic in 1950. He is 92 years of age and comes to the clinic daily.

Ignore the fingers, he moved way too fast for me to get a good picture. We all said we wished we could move that fast!!

Until later my friends.

We started this morning at 9:40am being picked up by the van in front of the apartment. Got to the clinic and went over my medical records from the states. I then met with Dr. Ruiz, head hematologist, to go over the tests that were done Monday.  Everything was okay but my blood pressure (140/70), cholesterol (212), and blood sugar (112) was a little high. Lungs and breathing were great and so was my  I had guessed my disability on the EDSS chart was a 6.5 to 7 and I got that pretty darn close, they rated me a 6.5. So glad because 7.0 was the cut off for Mexico.

We started our chemo drip at 1:30 and got to head back to apartments at 6:40.  I wish I had known that they were going to leave the needle in my vein or I would have requested it in my right arm since I do everything with my left besides write. Oh well, live and learn. No shower in qthe morning!

Tomorrow will be my last trip to the clinic for a stronger dose of chemotherapy. Thursday they will come to the apartment to give me a shot every 12 hours (I think) for me to start producing an abundance of stem cells. It then starts again on Monday.

I have had to drink 2 liters of water and 625ml of electrolytes.  No sleeping tonight and I got my diaper on!  I just hope I don’t get nauseous or a headache.

If I get to graphic about things, skip those parts because this is my diary of events to have for many moons from now.

I am so proud to be in Group 1, everyone is so nice andhelpful. Uta (spelling) is our group leader.

Until I write again, I am signing off to finish my drinkin’!