T -6 (Six Days Until Transplant)

Today started early, like 4 or 5 early!  I just couldn't sleep last night. I actually wasn't too anxious, I think I was a little uncomfortable from this picc line in my jugular vein.  It's much better today.  Chemo started promptly at 8 am (Etoposide) a chemo I haven't had yet. It runs for 24 hours. It's almost 9 pm now and it's been tolerated fairly well.  They run this chemo with tons of fluid and between that and me drinking 4 bottles of water and Gatorade I went to the bathroom every 15-20 minutes (drinking that water KJenn! hear that!)  The main side effect are those awful mouth sores so I've been swishing my mouth with whatever solution they kept bringing me today.  Trust me, I will do anything to avoid the mouth sores, had them one time and I never want one again =(  I had so many people in and out of my room today.  Physical Therapists, Doctors, Nurses, the head of the department, my WONDERFULLY AMAZING MOTHER for lunch, social workers and trust the list goes on.  So I'm pretty exhausted right now.  Tomorrow will be two chemo's (Etoposide and Cytoxan) and with the cytoxan they give that with 5 or 6 bags of IV fluid and the bathroom breaks will be even more frequent...how annoying but that's okay, we're going to make it!!!!!!  Still Fighting!  Katie