Thank you all for your wonderful prayers and kind support.
Today I had my third dose of Chemo in 3 days. Once again I have had none of the bad side effects except the retention of fluids. They put me on a diuretic and potassium pills and I am now fine. I have not had the predicted upset stomach pains and nausea. I have been eating well.
The Doctor told me that I was to eat all the food I have been told not to eat. He said if it has a lot of calories and I like it eat all I want and then eat some more. Lots of other people taking CHEMO with me are skinny as a rail.
I had 3400 calories yesterday. My daughter Pamela went to a place that sells smoothies made with ice cream and asked for the one with the highest calories. They gave her a huge smoothie that had 1800 calories in just one huge serving. She brought it when she picked me up from CHEMO and I drank it in about 5 minutes. It was great.
I get my next doses of CHEMO in 2.5 weeks. I get a shot for white blood cells this Friday, and blood tests and needed shots on Monday.. then again a week from Monday and then I go back for 3 more days of chemo.
I am going home next Tuesday. My son and three other daughters are going to take care of me for a week. If I have recovered enough from the CHEMO I plan to play the Paint Valley Jamboree the 11th of October.
I think Luke McCoy and I are going to play a lead guitar duet.. we plan to improvise a version of the Old Bob Wills tune titled Pan Handle Rag. If my voice is good enough I may sing a few.
I spent about two hours this evening on the phone with my daughter Kelly. Kelly is very bright. She graduated cum laude from Ohio state in 1998 and has a very good job in the Ohio State government in Columbus. She like her grand daddy before her is very involved on the wrong side of the political isle. She wants to use government to help the poor and afflicted. She reminds me of my sister.. very very pretty and very leftist.
Oh well, I love her and am very proud of her... and her grandpa if he were alive would be asking me how I could ever have produced such a pretty, brilliant, and wonderful daughter. He would have added she is proof the good genes aways skip a generation.
My oldest Daughter is just as bright and very conservative.
Pamela was valedictorian of her high school class and a consistant Deans List student in college. I think Pamela was more into boys rather than hitting the books in college.
When the sisters start arguing politics I go hide under the bed.
I always tried to raise my daughters properly.. I always bought then two of anything they ever asked for, and 1 of anything they looked at more than once.
I know that when I am ill they are all here for me.And that is a great comfort.
Your daughters sound wonderful.
Have a good evening, CT. :-)
Thanks for the details on your condition, treatment, history and family, Ray. Thanks for your take on the blog of last night’s debate. Great commentary, as usual.
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((((Hugs))))You’ll get to play I just know it,Fatima