Thursday, September 10, 2009

Peg's stronger this week

She took a half-hour walk by herself two days ago, and this morning our friend Katie took her to Target to buy some comfortable pants.  It's the first trip somewhere besides a doctor's appointment since the surgery.

Peg's been getting in, through herculean effort, 2,600+ calories a day-- mostly protein powder packed smoothies.  For some reason, she won't go for an Ultimate Cheeseburger from Jack in the Box (910 easy calories!)  Her appetite is pretty good; the tough part is having to eat every two hours or so to build her weight back up.  She's up to 126 from her lowest weight of 119.  Her walk is stronger and more confident than it was even two weeks ago.

Next Wednesday is Round Four (of six) for chemo.  Her nickname is chemo-sabi– she's the "paleface" from being inside all day and I'm the "red" man from bicycling in sizzling Sacramento.

Dr. B. eyeballed her yesterday and is really pleased at where she's at in her treatment.  They run a CA-125 chem panel after chemo, so we'll know Peg's new numbers about a week from next Monday.  Stay tuned...