Wow! Things have been extremely busy this past month!
Cliff was scheduled to have his 6th round of chemo the first week of October, but because of how busy I was at work and Coy’s 10th birthday we decided to postpone his chemo until the second week. He did extremely well! His body isn’t recovering as fast as before so he has had two platelet transfusions since he got out of the hospital. As you can imagine it’s very annoying to get pricked and poked all the time, but he’s handling it well. If things stay on schedule Cliff will be done with chemo on November 21st which happens to be Gabriella’s first birthday! It will be very special day for our family! He will still have radiation after, but that won’t happen for a month or so after his last chemo round.
Cliff will start his 7thround chemo tomorrow. This will be his last "A" treatment! The “A”treatments are supposed to be the easier of the two, but for some reason they have been more difficult for him. I think it’s the hiccups that make it so bad. When Cliff is nauseous it usually stems from having the hiccups. The medicine to control them is an anti-depressant and has the opposite side effect on him. He’s a complete grump! He will deny this, but I have witnesses to back me up!
It’s a strange feeling to be getting to the end and have the emotions that I have. I’m excited and scared. We’ve had a plan for how Cliff was going to be treated, but we don’t have a plan for after radiation yet. This is the scary unknown part all over again! I know that Dr. Turner and his colleagues will help us make the best decision for Cliff, but we aren’t to that point yet. This is why research is so important!
On a different note Cliff and I got married a little over a week ago! When Cliff proposed he basically had our wedding planned. We were going to get married on 12/12/12 and it was going to be a destination wedding. Little did we know he would be diagnosed with cancer and starting chemo 15 days after our engagement? After we found out he was sick we were planning on keeping our date and having a small dinner with our family. The pressure was starting to build so I asked him on a Thursday night if he wanted to get married after I got off the next day. I didn’t know we were really going to do this until about noon on Friday. I didn’t have a dress, pictures, cake, flowers, bridal or bachelorette party, but I got to marry my best friend!
