Saturday, May 29, 2010

Today!

It's been a long, full day for us today. Much of the day was spent on the phone with several people (and one person several times, right Anthony? It was fun talking to you! Those martians kept interrupting though didn't they?).
Much of the day was spent cleaning, doing laundry and re-cleaning because I gave Terry a hair cut, which made a mess of things. His hair looks nice but he sure doesn't have as much hair to cut after loosing so much of it. Lucky he had so much to begin with.

It was raining when we got up this morning and we thought we'd need our umbrella for sure, but we never had to open it. The rain stopped and we were dry both coming and going to the clinic for blood draw, though there was just a bit of "misting" along the route coming home, but that was along the sidewalk with the highway above us and to the left, so maybe it was really just road spray :).

But, what you really want to know is how Terry is feeling. He is feeling weak. The nausea is decreasing, but the energy is too. We were informed this afternoon that his red cells are too low so he is scheduled for 2 units of blood tomorrow, and it could take up to 5 hours to receive it. Therefore we will spend much of our Sunday in the infusion room. We hope this helps him feel better and more energetic. It was good to learn how long it will take so that we can drag along some books or something to do during the transfusion. Elaine's mom and dad plan to come visit for a couple hours, so that should help the day go faster.

1 comment:

Tyler said...

We hope the transfusion will offer better energy and all around feeling of well being. We actually saw sunshine today which was really great. Hope you had a great visit with your parents Elaine. I saw the pictures of Gregory's children making bread with mom and it just made me cry. It is amazing to me she is still making bread and still entertaining the great-grands now with the dough. What a blessing for her and the children. Love you both. Always, Sherri