Friday night was a very enjoyable evening. Mark and his friend, Phil, came over after work and had dinner with us and then spent the evening with Judith playing Set.
Yesterday (Saturday) evening Ingrid did not feel like cooking and, anyway, we felt like having a bit of a celebration after Judith's encouraging test results so Ingrid, Judith and I went to Al. Gonquin's, a restaurant where Judith used to work last year. It was a good idea - a nice way to have a mini celebration.
Muriel the home nurse had come in the morning on Saturday to give Judith her post-chemo injection and found that the doctor had ordered 1000 ml of IV hydration, not the half-litre of the previous 2 occasions. As this takes about 10 hours it was agreed to have it overnight so after we came back from our dinner Muriel came and set Judith up for the night. Well, it was not to be a night of rest. Between occlusions (mostly false it would seem) and failures the IV pump beeped us out of bed right through the night. I did not keep track but it would not be an exaggeration if I said this thing must have beeped us approx. 20 times. I think the longest sleep stretch was about 90 minutes. When Sandy, Muriel's nursing colleague, came to remove the IV at 8:00 this morning we all felt like we had been partying all night without the fun (Remind me to request the machine get serviced.) Sandy said that if Judith could take in a liter and a bit of liquids during the day then they could assess this evening whether it will be necessary to do another hydration tonight.
Judith has been sleeping most of the day so far (normal for the 3rd and 4th days of chemo) so we have been waking her periodically to take in some liquids. Approved liquids exclude caffeine and alcohol.
