DAY 13 - MORNING/AFTERNOON

We got a late start this morning.  We stayed in bed until about 9:30am.

Then I got up to go get breakfast - special order of pancakes for Valerie.  She likes to eat and take her morning pills with her first IV because they give her a shot of insulin, which makes her blood sugar drop, which makes her hungry.  (Something about making her blood sugar drop, then administering the low-dose chemotherapy, works more effectively.)  Well, there was some concern that the catheter in her arm wasn't working properly, so they didn't start the chemo - we were waiting for the guy to check the catheter and possibly redo it.

By the time that all got worked out, it was 11:10am and there was a class at 11 that we really wanted to go to.  It's every Tuesday morning at 11 and we didn't go last week.  They talked a lot about how and why a good diet works - what the tumor likes and doesn't like and how it operates - studies that show the success of drinking a little baking soda mixed in your water - etc.  (Oh, and by the way, the class was run by the guy in all black in yesterday's pics - he's Dr. Barroso, MD, PhD - Vice President of Medicine and Research)

So, we got back to the room at about 12:30 and the Dr. Carbajal came in and said we are leaving today.  I told him that I'm pretty sure we have 2 more days of treatment to do.  So they are trying to figure that out.  Either way, Valerie won't finish her 6 IVs until probably 8 or so tonight since we got started so late.  So we will ask to leave in the morning, even if today is the last day of treatment.

She's felt kinda puny this morning.  When we finally made it back to the room at 12:30, she ate 1.5 pancakes with strawberries and about a cup of beans and took her morning pills.  They stop serving lunch around 2pm - so I'll try to get her to eat a little something then and take her afternoon pills.

No matter what, looks like we'll be home by tomorrow or Thursday.