Merry Christmas Eve!
Madness and mayhem abound at home. After spending all of Saturday shopping and Sunday wrapping gifts, preparations are being made for tomorrow's influx of dinner guests. We have 16 people coming over for dinner. Yes, I said 16. Add that to the five here and there'll be 21 people in the house. Guests include my dad & stepmom, both of my sisters and their families, and one of my uncles and his family. It'll be loud and chaotic and wonderful! I did say I was crazy. But then, part of Christmas has always been a house full of people for dinner, a night full of games and total insanity.
Tonight's our traditional Christmas Eve get-together at another uncle's house. All the local family gathers under one roof and spends the night eating, drinking, and being merry. Next year's Christmas Eve gathering will be at my house since I now have a house large enough to hold the forty or so people that'll be attending. (Yes, more than likely all at once.) Mom's already plotting and planning everything for next year. The best part is that next Christmas my grandma will be home for the holidays.
Merry Christmas to you and yours. I hope your Christmas is spent surrounded by family and friends, full of joy and laughter, lots of memorable moments, and even a bit of insanity.
I love you all and am thankful to have you in my life.
Update:
Wednesday is my next chemo appointment and visit with my oncologist. Up for discussion will be the Neulasta shots as I missed 4 days of work last week due to flu-like symptoms and a fever (same as two weeks prior). I went to the clinic on Tuesday and met with the nurse practitioner. She's fairly certain the Neulasta is responsible as the fever and symptoms started at the same time after I got the shot as two weeks earlier. Neulasta affects about 1 out of 100 people this way (Lucky me!) and it is also very predictable to the point you could almost set a clock by it.
So, the discussion will be whether to continue with the Neulasta shots, knowing what will happen each time, or discontinue with the Neulasta and space out the two remaining heavy doses of chemo to three week cycles. The nurse practitioner thinks the latter is the better choice for me and I agree. It is far better to add a couple more weeks to the treatment plan than to continue with the current course.
Otherwise, things have gone pretty well overall and hopefully, there'll be little to no issues with the Taxol (the chemo drug I'll be taking weekly).
Love & Hugs!
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