First day of the last chemo

Today I went in for my last FAC chemo treatment. I have about 7 weeks until Rachel is due to recover. Then I get a week to 10 days after delivery before starting the Taxol chemo for 12 weeks. However, right now the best bet is to focus on the first day of the last round of FAC chemo! Dr. M is very pleased w/ my progress and reaction to the chemo so far. Dr. B is pleased w/ Rachel's progress as well. We didn't get a chance to hear Rachel today b/c we were running behind. However, I felt her moving the whole time I was getting plugged in, so I'm sure all is fine.

Simon is not handling something well, but we're not really sure what is bothering him. He woke up screaming around 230 am this morning. I went to check on him & ended up holding him in his glider for a while. I thought I'd held him long enough to get him back to sleep, but he seemed determined to stay awake. I caved & brought him into our bed. He laid down for a while, but was very restless. I took him back to his room into his bed & he started screaming again. I rocked him some more & put him back w/ the same result. I finally told him he was just going to have to cry. By that time it was 430 am. Andrew had been awake on & off throughout, but he finally got up for good and laid with Simon in the recliner. They 'slept' there till later in the morning. Hopefully he'll sleep better tonight b/c Andrew has to work, so he can't really be up all night/morning. Send us some sleepy time vibes for the little boy please!

Bleh day...

Today I got up & went to church, but felt awful. My stomach has been upset for the past few days. Mom thinks its nerves b/c of my last chemo. I think its the chemo building up in my system from all 3 of my prior treatments. Either way its pretty miserable.

On a good note, the boys went to Mass w/ me. We also had music again finally! Our music director's father is very ill and he's been travelling instead of playing for us. I hope his dad gets better, but selfishly I hope he plays for Mass more often!

Tomorrow is the beginning of my last round of this type of chemo! Yippee! Hopefully it won't wipe me out too badly, but at least I'll have about 7 weeks (hopefully) until Rachel arrives. She's been very active lately - like usual. It kind of stinks tho when she's active & my stomach is upset... She's not real kind to my intestines! Oh well, the joys of pregnancy!

Late morning

The boys & I slept very late this morning. We had a leisurely breakfast then we drove to Nortonville to see a horse. We ended up putting $100 down on one named Phoebe. She's a 7 year old Haflinger that's trained to drive. I'm really excited b/c she seems like exactly what we need! She was stoic about everything I did to her. I the next couple weeks I'm going to drag mom down there to go drive the horse w/ my harness just to be sure. Its been over a month since I've touched a horse, so I was just basically excited to be around one again! I definitely don't want to spend the $$ on a horse that's not going to fit in. Andrew even seemed to approve.