Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Had an appointment with my nurse practitioner at Huntsman (the doctor is out of town) this morning, followed by my Avastin infusion.  Everything looks fine with my lab work and blood pressure.  I was a little worried at first when the nurse practitioner came into the room because she had such a concerned look on her face, but the first comment out of her mouth was her asking how a family member of mine is doing who has been diagnosed with cancer.  I thought that that was very touching!  She said that she has been thinking about this person a lot (I mentioned it to her the last time I saw her in December).   I got to the infusion room about 30 minutes early and when they called me back it took quite a while for the lab to send the Avastin down - almost an hour of waiting in the infusion room before it came.  At one point the nurse called the lab to find out what was going on!  Then the machine that I was hooked up to kept beeping saying that there was a problem with my tubing but they couldn't see anything wrong.  I think it beeped about 4 times on me.

We had a snowstorm come through yesterday and more of it today.  DH was able to stay home with the girls and work from home today so that my mom didn't have to make the drive over to our house. I also decided to take Trax in today so that I wouldn't have to deal with driving in the snow.  Unfortunately I left the house a few minutes later than I wanted to (and I had to go back for my cell phone), so I just barely missed the 7:15 train and had to wait around another 15 minutes in the snow for the next train.  Luckily I gave myself plenty of time this morning though and I still made it to Huntsman a half hour before I needed to be there.  It was pretty crowded on the train with the morning commuters and students taking the train this morning.

On the way home the valets at Huntsman drove me down to the Trax station and then it was a relatively quick ride to my stop.  As soon as I got off the train, DH called and asked where I was.  I told him that I had just gotten off of the train and was on my way home.  The snow was pretty deep in a couple of places and it took me a little longer than normal to make my way through some of it.  Then I turned into our neighborhood and had a hard time navigating around the snow piles.  I couldn't make it to the church parking lot that we usually cut through so I went around the other side of the church than I usually do and apparently I just missed DH and the girls.  I showed up at home and no one was there.  I called DH's cell phone and he said that they had gone out to meet me and apparently we just missed each other by going around opposite sides of the church building!  By the time I met up with them finally the girls were freezing!  Kay had refused to put on her boots and was just in her jacket and neither of them had gloves or hats on.  It took me a while to get them all dry and warmed up when we got back home!

1 comment:

  1. Stephanie, it sounds like a really positive outlook right now, and that is truly an answer to many prayers. I'm so glad to hear the good news this month! I always enjoy reading your blog, and am so grateful that you so generously share your journey. Thank you. I'll keep up on your next Avastin infusion, and please know you and your family are always in our prayers. Please be sure to call me if there is ever a time that I could help in any way with anything; I'm so close and could be there in just a few minutes; any time, honestly. God Speed! :-) Cindy

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