Another weekend here already! Sheina is hanging in there, bless her baby heart. She has lost sooo much weight.  We started the last new drug, the Peroxicam, today. Hope it helps too!! She has to discontinue the steroids while she is taking it. During the three days before/after chemo, she will take prednisone instead.

 I just was trimming the hair away from the eye corner on the side she has the tumors in her nose on - she has a lot of eye drainage on that side and it was a mess. I soaked it with a warm washrag first so it wouldn'thurt her. I noticed there is a tumor BEHIND her eye obviously pushing her eye forward... and making her face asymmetrical - damn it.  She is tolerating the first round of chemo amazingly well, maybe it will shrink all of them some and give her some relief. Her nose is physically obstructed on one side by the tumor - also her tonsil, her lymph gland, and above the right eye. All the irritation from the tumor causes all this drainage and of course it can't get OUT - so she chokes on it or snuffs through it trying to breathe thru her nose. She has to be on constant Robitussin and Benadryl just to keep her breathing.

Despite all this she is still very interested and happy most of the time. She is definitely enjoying all the special treats mom's giivng her - stuff like scrambled eggs etc., high protein stuff. Oh, this is hard. I have been through the hit-by-car variety many times but never this. My main goal is to keep her as happy/comfortable as I can for as long as I can but when it gets to a bad outweighing the good level, I WILL  let her go. And that will kill me.

Just found out yesterday my stepson is having another child, so grandma again sometime in April. Cool!! Life just keeps going in doesn't it! Thank God for that.

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