#teammindy

Three trips to the hospital down. We are both pretty tired from all the traveling (and the road construction! urgh!)But we're home and Mindy's doing well. They did adjust her amount of chemo meds she got during her infusion this time because she's lost so much weight. (11% since the start of treatment) A lot of the initial weight loss was because of all that fluid finally drying up.Her albumin number is at 4! (That's the goal!-it's the protein that measures if she's malnourished or not) And since she's got her nausea under control (and my feeding her rather than crap from rehab)-we finally got that number up! We do still need to work on putting some weight on her but her appetite still isn't great. (Everyone keeps telling her to drink milkshakes -DO NOT suggest that! LOL-the chemo has killed her sweet tooth so it's not as easy as that!) Even all the nutritional drinks are (Ensure,Boost) are too sweet-we cut it with milk to reduce the sweetness but she still does't love it. -So, that's our goal still-work on getting some meat on her bones.I ordered her a little pedal bike (it's just pedals) from Amazon (thanks to those who donated gift cards to us) and she has been able to slowly increase her use with that which is great for building her strength and endurance. Next chemo infusion is July 12. I'm off to work on another project for class (this time it's my gender studies class. TTFN!