Round 6

Hello,

I just spent a wonderful weekend with my other family, the Millers in Ft. Collins. The photo is with sweet Uncle Herb and his son Steve. Yes, I’m the hulking one in the middle! I am so lucky to still have the Millers in my life as well as the Seymour clan and my own incredible Fly/McDowell family.



One more chemo to go tomorrow. After that I will have blood levels drawn for the CA125 on a monthly basis for some time. According to my oncologist, it is more sensitive than a scan would be. I will probably have another CT scan in the fall as a follow up to the mucocele tumor I had 2 and ½ years ago. What a journey this has been. I guess that’s one word for it. I still can’t believe all of the continued love and support that I receive every day from friends and family. I feel like this has been a community effort. You’ve all been there with me, Paul and the kids from the beginning. I do think often of the simple acts of kindness: the soup, the visits, the foot rubs, the calls, the emails, the love…We could not have made it without each and every one of you.


“Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.”


Love you all,

Nyshie (aka Big Giant)

Nysh the Dish!

Who else could look this smokin' hot at 57, after 5 rounds of chemotherapy and BALD?

That's right, Nysh the Dish!

Monday-update from Nysh...

Hello,

I seem to be recuperating from my last chemo very slowly, but thankfully no hospital admission this round. Fatigue is the biggest problem still, but I’m also having light headedness and very low blood pressure, even for me. I was supposed to have a CBC on Thursday, but moved it up to tomorrow. I’m guessing my red blood count is in the toilet. If so, I’ll get transfused at the hospital, perhaps Wednesday or Thursday. That should get me up and going again.

Hope everyone is enjoying this balmy weather!

Love,

Nyshie

Thursday p.m.

Hi,

She is doing okay. Yesterday was a really good day, she went for a walk and grabbed a quick bite of lunch with me and Vivian and met Paul's sister Janet for dinner! Today, not so good. She's felt pretty crummy and has spent most of the day in the bed. Just general stuff though, nothing horrific this time. She should be feeling much better this weekend, just in time for the 80 degree weather!

Love,
Maggie

Monday

Hi all,

Well, she started having the epigastric pain again today, however milder than previous treatments. She stayed on top of all symptoms with pain meds, anti-nausea and the anti-spasmodic. So she had a pretty good day, considering. She was able to control everything fairly well and even walked a 1/2 mile down their dirt road!

Mega fatigue and symptoms are kicking now she just told me. So, she's medicating and heading to bed.

Thanks and love ya'll,
Maggie

Happy Mother's Day BG Nysh!

Pictures from this a.m. Mother's Day was fairly subdued. We just visited on the patio. She's hanging in, fairly sick. She hasn't had any of the epigastric pain, so far, just the usual fluish symptoms. She does teeter on fainting constantly and the fatigue is brutal.

Matching Trainwrecks-see t-shirts


Mamaw Nysh, Mama & Vivan


Grandpa Paul & Vivian

Round 5

Well, I had my 5th chemo treatment today with no side effects as of tonight. It usually takes 36 to 48 hours for the yucky part to hit. I’ll have my Newlasta shot Saturday morning and blood work in 1 week to see if I need red blood cell transfusions prior to the next, and may I add, LAST FRIGGIN’ chemo treatment. I probably won’t be checking emails much in the coming days, but know that I love you all.

As Maggie quoted on one of the cards she sent me: “Cancer is a word, not a sentence.”

Nyshie