So mom resumed her 46 hr 5FU chemo this past Monday after having taken another chemo break for the past few weeks.
Unfortunately, she only received 20 hrs of it before it began leaking because of bad tubing and had to have it removed yesterday instead of today.
With the weather being so awful she didn't want to make the hour trip back to the hospital for a replacement bag.
Which in the end turned out to not even have been an option because their weren't any appointments available and the ER doesn't administer chemo anyways.
At Chemo on Monday she weighed 116 lbs which means she's lost 6 lbs since her last chemo on 12-16-2013.
So I got to work baking cookies galore.. Coconut Caramel macaroons, double chocolate chip and Jelly cookies with Benecalorie and three days later their almost all gone. Yay! The tricky part was keeping the kids from eating them:-)
I've also been putting the slow cooker to good use and it's made everything so tender that mom has had a much easier time digesting and keeping everything down even meat.
I have noticed though that she has started to crave some acidity in her foods like lime or vinegar which at first worried me, but she seems to be doing fine with it. I even made homemade sour cream with vinegar and she loved it! Thank god for you tube!
The doctor called to let her know not to worry too much about not getting the full chemo and that she would just resume again in two weeks. So as mom gets hydration and Ellie takes her 3rd nap today I've decided to get to work on making more cookies and homemade Arabic yogurt to balance out all the sweets she's eating. She'll easily weigh at least 130 by the time winters over at the rate were going, I hope :-)
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