Rough Patch....

Well, I'm grateful that this weekend is just about over. It's definitely been rough the past few days. As many of you know, I've been battling with migraines for quite some time now and it appears that they have decided to persist. Late Thursday night my headaches started increasing. By Friday morning, I knew I was in trouble. I got Matthew ready and took him to school, but before I could even make it home, the vomiting started. It became uncontrollable, along with the pain, so Scot rushed me to the ER. They had done blood cultures and some test that I don't recall the name of, came back that I was at a 9% level of a serious infection. The doctor didn't want me to wait until Wednesday, when I see my oncologist, but insisted that I go back in to Urgent Care the next day to have more blood drawn to see where my level of infection was at. In any case, they spent 6 hours trying to get the vomiting and pain under control and finally released me.

Not 15 mins. after I got home, I started vomiting again. Every 15 mins for 5 1/2 hours. This of course brought my migraine right back to where it was, so late Friday night, it was back down to the ER. This time they admitted me and were worried about dehydration (obviously) and infection. They drew more blood and ran a CAT scan of my brain just in case. They tried a different nausea medication and this seemed to work. They kept me for a while, made me eat jello and I was released on Saturday.

I was happy to be home and resting in my own bed. My goodness, hospitals are so incredibly noisy...the LAST place one can actually rest! I was grateful that Kate had spent the night at a friends house and they took her to her track meet at Mt. Sac. She ran the 800m, which was only her 3rd time ever running the 800m and she took 5th place and got a medal! I am so very proud of her, but so bummed I wasn't there to see her and cheer for her! She's been going through her own battles lately between her surgery, strep throat, ear infections, etc. but she's been giving 100% and I'm so proud of her! Can you tell?? :)

Well, Wednesday, April 1st is my next chemo treatment. I'm going to be talking with them to find out if there are different meds we can use to help me through the nausea better and my migraines, so I'm hoping they come up with something.

I do have a confession to make. On Friday, on our way down to the ER, I was praying to God, asking Him if He could just, please, give me a break...just a little one. That I absolutely couldn't handle the pain in my head anymore. I instantly felt guilty for that. First off, I know God wasn't giving me the pain, nor has He given me cancer. There are so many more people out there suffering much, much more than me and I realize that I CAN handle this. I had a few minutes, ok hours, of weakness there, but I'm going to try not to let that happen again. Besides, I know God heard me, because I happened to get the Head of ER doctor waiting on me...and he was there again when I went back...so God gave me the best doctor I could get. So, thank you God, for looking after me.

Love & Blessings,
Lisa