The Big Green "N"

N is for Nausea. And that is the hurdle Cathi is faced with now. (Janice posting again.) The constant throwing up has ceased and the plan for each day now includes NPA (No Puking Allowed). But the stomach is queasy much of the time and food just isn't quite making it to the top of the list. Slowly but surely, with the help of a number of anti-nausea and anti-emetic drugs, this is improving. In the meantime, we are still at the hospital, getting TPN.
Seven laps around the floor today, in two installments, so the strength is returning. Chemo-brain is gone, if the completed crossword puzzles are the evidence. All we need now is blood counts to start back up (Doctor M. says next week on the counts. "It's too early."), and appetite to make an appearance.

No one has actually mentioned a discharge date yet: Cathi says when she can consume five or six hundred calories in a day and keep it all down, she will feel ready to discuss home-going. Stay tuned!