Our day improved but it’s still been a long one. We are still in the hospital for another night for monitoring. She’s receiving fluids only and some pain medicine because of pesky mouth sores. These are caused by low white blood count, radiation and chemotherapy and the mouth is the perfect breeding ground for bacteria 🦠 ! Her mouth hurts when she eats or drinks so we are trying to be creative with soft non-acidic foods and drinks. Milkshakes, popsicles, ice-cream, smoothies…you name it, we are trying it!
We met with our radiology oncologist today. We are pressing forward as planned, no delays! The next 8 rounds will be a smaller more targeted area where they believe is the origin of the large tumor. He advised that we should expect the redness and swelling to remain for a few weeks after we are done. This is normal but of course I will be monitoring it like a crazy woman! 😜
She has been resting most of the day. She needs the sleep. We had to interrupt her beauty sleep though and go to an interior hallway for a period of time due to tornado warning in downtown Memphis. It was uneventful and we survived. 😝
She’s staying strong though it all. A little pissed off at me this morning for making us come here last night but she got over it pretty quickly and told me it wasn’t my fault, it was the right thing for us to do.
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First posted on the OliviaStrong Facebook page.