Are you really there?

Day two is drawing to a close. Things have been going pretty well so far, however, Heather is beginning to lose control of her fingers, so I will be taking over the blog for awhile. 

She has talked to a few people that haven't been in the room, but one person she mentioned on facebook today was actually here. We were just paid a visit from King 5's "Jesse Jones" 

Jesse has kidney cancer, and the treatment for kidney cancer is IL-2. He went through the same treatment as Heather about a year ago. I read an article about it in Pacific Northwest Golfer a couple of months ago after Heather's first trip down here. 

Today, I happened to ask Heather's nurse if he was working when Jesse was down here, which he was. Several hours later the nurse came in and told me to stick around because Jesse Jones was on the way in to visit our neighbor. 

So, 20 minutes later, Jesse Jones stopped by to chat with us before his visit next door. Heather and Jesse exchanged a few IL-2 stories and he offered her up some words of encouragement. He was very impressed that Heather had made it through two rounds and was back for two more. 

Anyway, back to our Heather.  She is handling the first few doses very well.  Starting to get a bit itchy and red.  Also, getting the "jimmy legs" a bit too.  The drugs to combat the side effects are working well so far.  She was able to sleep most of the afternoon.  Her blood pressure has slowly been dropping since we got here and finally got low enough that she was put on the "pressor" medication, "Neo." She was still able to receive her 4th dose of IL-2 at 6:00.  4 for 4!!

We have been told several times that she definitely won't make all 14 doses this time, but we all know Heather... She still plans on all 14!! Next dose scheduled for 2:00 AM.

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