Check up

Sierra had  her first outpatient check up today. She will do this once or twice a week between chemo treatments to track her blood counts. She had to have blood drawn, which they could have done from her port, but she chose to do in her arm.  For today her numbers were great, but they expect them to drop a lot by next week when she goes back in. She met with one of the physical therapists and did a lot of stretching, and some walking exercises, they drained her physically because she fell asleep on the doctors table afterward. We are going to be set up with a physical therapist that she will see on a regular basis as well. We talked with the doctor about different ways to keep her food intake up, since she gets tired and nauseous from the meds, and he said they are going to take a different approach with her anti-nausea meds next time she has chemo, so she hopefully will have an easier time.

She is basically back to her regular self, besides not being able to walk. She hasn't felt sick today at all, and has actually eaten pretty well. She is basically allowed to eat whatever she wants, and anything that sounds good to her, we try to get for her because we want to keep her from loosing too much weight. Tonight it was hamburgers, she was talking to me about them in the middle of the night last night when I woke her to give her meds, and she said she dreamed about them too:) So we grabbed stuff on the way home from her appointment and had hamburgers and french fries for dinner.