It was bye bye picc line, hello keflex!

Nanc awoke this morning to a very low grade fever, but a fever nonetheless. So she called the cancer center and it was back to the hospital for Danika and Nanc today. A quick rundown of the day's events:

1. Get triaged, assigned a nurse and remove picc line
   
2. Meet with doctor and then make appointment with surgeon for insertion of a catheter port
   
3. Lunch at Jerry's Deli
   
4. Back to cancer center for more hydration and IV antibiotic
   
5. Home and more stuff to get the plumbing working again
   
6. Salad for dinner
   
7. Couch and then here we are.....

We need to keep an eye on her arm and her temperature and call if either are abnormal.

They will insert the port on Tuesday morning early, access it with a needle, have a little lunch and then go back to infusion center for the first day of round 2. They access it during surgery so it's easier on her when she goes in for treatment the same day.

We are also making plans to possibly have some acupuncture next Thursday. We have heard that it can help with the side effects, especially the day after treatment. So we are doing the leg work to make that happen next week as well. We will be discussing that with Dr. Lang on Thursday.

Click here for a brief article on how it works, etc. Thank you Scott...

I want to take some picture of the nurses and doctors on her team and will make more of an effort to do that in the coming weeks. It would be nice to have some faces to go with the names I am sure.

I could go on and on about the day. It sure seems like a lot has gone wrong if I look at that way. It's just the way it is right now for Nanc.

We ahve found that every treatment is different depending on so many factors. Nancy's is what it is and it will be what it's going to be. Our job is to learn how to manage what it is when it happens. We are learning....

A special thanks to Danika today for spending her day at the hospital today... xoxo