DAY TWO OF TREATMENT #1O

Hi Friends!

This will be short as I spent today as a human pincushion, and so I am forced to type one-handed. Annie took me to Dr. Menco's today for Day 2 of steroids by IV. My veins were more uncooperative than usual, and it took 3 tries to get one IV started. As a result, we want to keep that one nice vein for tomorrow's treatment. So, when I finished, after about 2 hours -- they left the needle in my vein, capped it off, and made it into a port for tomorrow. Not much fun as the vein is in the elbow of my right arm! It's very uncomfortable, and while I was very manic and happy earlier today, now I'm just alternating between steroid rage and weeping! YUCK!!!

After my treatment, Annie and I ate lunch. We then drove to Malibu to sign escrow papers on our Simi house. Bill met us there with the kids. Annie was kind enough to hang out with them in the air-conditioned truck watching DVDs and eating Jack in the Box while Bill and I signed the papers. Again, not good timing to be signing lots of papers, with a port in my right arm! But we got it done!

Then Bill took the kids home, and Annie and I went to pick up Cam from high school. She dropped me off at the way at a grocery store by his school so that I could do some shopping. The timing worked out well and I was done just as she showed up with Cam. Only one problem -- it was a Fresh and Easy store with only self-checkout and bagging. I guess I looked pretty pathetic with my cart of groceries and my heavily bandaged hand that I had to hold straight, because a nice manager came and helped me.

The kids and Annie helped with the groceries and we did some chores around home. I was starting to feel a bit obsessive and didn't want to go on a cleaning frenzy since I'm supposed to be keeping my arm straight -- so I decided to take the boys over to the fountain where there is a big walking/biking path. I did 4 rounds walking while they biked, and then I felt a bit better and came home.

Annie ordered Domino's for dinner -- surprising us all. So we had dinner and are now in the process of doing baths and bedtime. Bill and Isaac ran to the drugstore for me as I need more lancets for my diabetes meter. Can't wait to see what my numbers say! I tried to be good -- for breakfast an oatbran-blueberry muffin, for lunch a veggie sub on wheat, for dinner 2 slices of pizza and lots of carrots. But the steroids alone really elevate your blood sugar. So, more pricking tonight for the human pincushion! IVs, and lancets, and insulin! Oh my!

Annie took some pictures of me today, and she's going to add them for me. I need to go lay down.

Much Love,

Michele

P.S. -- Pictures of the plants are those potted by my sweet homeschoolers :-)