Let me start by outlining my least favorite things about winter, just to get them off my chest. 1- Driving in the snow. Snow is fine, and almost beautiful. As long as it's not on the roads and sidewalks. 2- Dry air = dry, itchy skin. Very dry. Very itchy. Painful. Boo. 3- Dry air = static everywhere. Have you every tried making a tutu when everything is sticking to itself and you just want to scream? Try it. 4-gas/electric bills. Ugh. 5- Not being able to go to the zoo/park/etc. It's so cold and it seems like Sophia has a cough every time I turn around. Poor kiddo :(

And now, here we are. We are sitting in the therapy room at Utah Cancer Specialists for the last time. Mike is asleep. We are running waaay behind schedule. Rough start for chemo. His first blood draw wouldn't clot so they had to re-draw and re-run his labs. His creatinine was higher than "normal" so the machine kicked it out. Start over again. Finally after being in the chair for over an hour, the lab sent out his drugs. And now we have 3 more hours. I'm super restless and just want to walk around. But the place isn't that big and I think I was making the office people nervous. FB games are boring today and magazines can't hold my interest. Mike's BP is really (really) high. So again with the screwing around with the medicines. Our hope is that when the meds are out of his system, his BP will even out again. Chemo is not good for the blood. haha. Sigh. We're scheduling a CT for 2-3 weeks from now. We have to do it without IV contrast, so we'll just see what we can see. We meet back with Dr. Chandramouli in 4 weeks and we'll get the results and talk about where we go from here. Should be that we'll just come back in every 3 months and a CT once a year. It's been a strange year. But it's ending on a high note.