I haven't showed you around my abode yet so I thought we could have some show and tell. So first up the view outside my window (which most of you have seen because of facebook but it's awesome so here it is again haha)
Yep...the horse shoe =) Pretty cool. It's weird here. you can see in the pic it's very gloomy and rainy. That's how the room feels. Then when it's sunny and bright the room feels like that. Well coming inside the window and to the left you have my divine sitting area:
My daughter's lovely artwork to help decorate my room. She is one talented lady! So you see above the chair the cards and collage board? These mean so much to me. A lot of the cards are from the department and are signed by so many very amazing people. I have some from family and friends. A couple counting down the weeks until this is hopefully over. The collage board has several quotes from my friends on facebook, very inspirational so thank you for those.
Going further left still is my dry erase board. Very fascinating.
Today you can see my nurse is Christine and my PCA Betty. Christine is telling me my white blood cell counts, platelet counts, and hemoblobin counts. Also that today I get to be infused with yummy platelets because mine are boarderline low. Awesome stuff. 
Speaking of infusing and IV's and such meet my dance partner. When I was going through Chemo I was hooked to this bad boy 24/7 all 7 days. I even showered hooked up to this guy ; ). These days we have grown apart as I can now be disconnected when I don't need blood products or antibiotics.
And lastly but certainly not least, the one and only...cranky duck! For when my dance partner makes me mad. ok ok, I've mentioned this guy before and never really explained. I have to wear this mask everytime I leave my room. My counts are so low, I can get sick from anything. My family can't even use my bathroom when they visit me. Insanity. So when a friend came to visit she suggested it looked like a duck bill and I should draw nostrils on it. My husband seeing this and our twisted senses of humors soon turned this guy into my alter ego. Whenever I am cranky about being woken up, hospital food, stubbing my toe on my dance partner, I dawn the mask and I become cranky duck, donald duck voice and all. It's really silly, but it makes me laugh. We have since thought up a 2nd alter ego. Sassy duck. This is the mask with no hat (me bald these days). Tellin it like it is with a southern duck voice. ; ) oh geez.
So..that's my bubble. The "and such" to my title is just an update. Since my last blog I am off Chemo. They waited a few days after I came off of that and then did a new bone marrow test. This test showed that so far there is no disease in my marrow. So now we wait to make sure new blasts don't appear and that my blood counts come back to where they should be. As far as symptoms, I have been so lucky, still no real side effects. I have lost my hair. That is going to be my next post by the way. So I will talk more about that then : ) My throat is a bit sore today which the nurse thinks is probably sores from the chemo. Other than that I am feeling good. I try to go for walks every day and just keepin positive. It really seems to be helping.
Well that's about it from me for now. Thank you so so much for reading : ) I hope I didn't bore you haha. Next time...hair loss. haha Talk to you soon and take care!
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