November Sunshine

November 23, 2013

A refreshing change of pace last week in the Taylor-Saunders household, we got lots of good news. Isaac’s reflux is better, Matt got a new job, and my MRI results showed shrinking tumors. That means that the last two months of treatment did its job and makes me feel better going forward with chemo round 2. Devoted readers of this blog might remember that I wasn’t sure what the next drug would be because I attempted Taxol at the beginning of all this and found out I was allergic. After pre-treatment with two different kinds of steroids, Benadryl, an anti-nausea med, a sedative, and Matt distracting me with stories of his misspent youth, I successfully got a drug called Abraxane (a Taxol cousin) into my body. We were tremendously relieved that the drug went in without a reaction, but the combination of all those drugs created an awesome hangover. We went to our parenting group that evening and the topic was emotional changes associated with parenting. The only thing I remember is not being able to complete a sentence. On Sunday, though, awesome family hike up to Fragrance Lake on Chuckanut Mountain! 

We stopped at one of the oyster restaurants on the way home and discovered that it was more of a white tablecloth type of place than a fish-and-chips type of place. Isaac acted like he was going to behave himself long enough to get us in the door and ordering food and then proceeded to scream his head off as we tried to gulp down our delicious chowder. That will be his last white tablecloth bottle feeding for a while. Today Matt and Isaac are hanging out while I do some much needed catching up on e-mails, thank you cards, phone calls, and bills. Please don’t give up on us if I owe you any of those things, I’m trying to get out from under my inboxes. This cute little guy tends to get in the way.