La La Land

This is Travis.  Just thought I would update everyone on the latest with Laura.  So the last two weeks have been interesting.  We spent most of the last couple weeks in the hospital at Emory.  I dont recommend it for Memorial Day weekend activities.  Her back has been the main source of concern as the pain has been too much for her to bear most of the time.  She is now on a portable delaudid pump to administer LOTS of drugs consistently throughout the day.  I joke that she is bringing the fanny pack back.  That being said, we are still trying to get to the source of the problem which is the cancer.  We are using a two pronged approach.  She has been on Salicinium for the last 2 months and this reaction is supposed to be somewhat expected as it starts to do its thing, but the pain was not expected to be this bad.  We are also looking at doing some chemo to bring down some of the inflammation.  Today she went in to Emory to get the chemo and didnt feel up to it.  So we will try again Wednesday.  She ended up getting herceptin and fluids to help her out.  She has two awesome nurses in Rebekah and Noah that are looking out for her and they rock!  Thanks to you both!!!  Tonight she is so drugged up that she was talking jibberish one minute then totally coherent the next.  We could only laugh!

Sadly, we also found out today that one of the guys that we used to see regularly in the trial chemo bay passed away a month ago.  His name was Bud and he would bring in the largest potatoes known to man from his farm.  He was also well known for his Bud-isms.  Truly one of a kind!!!  We miss you Bud!