{"id":53,"date":"2015-04-14T22:07:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T05:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.notwhatihadplanned.com\/?p=53"},"modified":"2015-04-14T22:07:44","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T05:07:44","slug":"homebound-april-7-and-april-8-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.notwhatihadplanned.com\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"Homebound \u2013 April 7 and April 8, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday, April 4th<\/sup> we had an amazing Easter Egg Hunt at our house. This is a tradition which I started with my daughter and this year, I expanded it to invite even more of her friends. Instead of the usual 5 kids and their families I upped the ante to a few more of her close friends (from different parts of her life \u2013 3 kids who she was friends with before preschool, her 2 good friends she made during preschool, her 2 good friends from kindergarten, her 2 good neighborhood friends, and her 2 good friends from Daisies). Our garden was in full bloom. The sun shined (I wore SPF50 and a hat!). There were a zillion eggs. The kids had a blast.<\/p>\n

After everyone left I cleaned up quickly with my husband and then collapsed to rest. Sunday \u2013 ah Sunday a mini-cold grew a little in strength and I was exhausted. I stayed home while my husband and daughter attended a brunch of one of my daughter\u2019s friends at school. Oh how I wanted to go\u2026.but yeah, that just wasn\u2019t going to happen. My family stayed out all day so I could rest. I called my oncologist\u2019s office and spoke to the on-call doctor \u2013 worried about my cold. I didn\u2019t have a fever at all but I definitely had a slight sore throat and an obnoxious runny nose. He called in a prescription for an antibiotic and told me to be very careful and if I got a fever of 100.4 or higher to go straight to the ER. I had heard this before. I was already checking my temperature a minimum of 2x a day.<\/p>\n

Monday, April 6th<\/sup> the cold continued without fever. I continued to panic about the whole 100.4F thing but figured I was ok. I felt off enough I opted to work from home and stay away from colleagues. If I just sat on my couch I felt fine and was functional. Then, while speaking to colleagues on the phone I noticed an odd bump around my ear \u2013 a slightly swollen, tender to the touch spot. Cripes! \u00a0I called the oncology nurses. \u201cBetter come in,\u201d they said. I did. They ran my blood and I saw the doc (lucky someone had canceled!).\u00a0 This was my second time visiting the office unexpectedly. The first time was less than a week before with a similar small, viral cold worry. They\u2019d taken my numbers, warned me about hitting 100.4F and sent me on my way and noted that next time, 24 hrs after my next chemo treatment that I\u2019d get a magic injection to help shorten my nadir period and also keep my counts a bit higher.\u00a0 This time my numbers were half as much. They\u2019d dropped further (proof the chemo was doing its job wonderfully!).\u00a0 Looking at my odd bump that had brought me to them for a visit\u2013 I was issued another antibiotic. I asked the doc about work \u2013 being anywhere near people. I\u2019m still new at being a cancer patient \u2013 what\u2019s a good decision? What\u2019s a bad decision? Work suddenly sounded like a bad idea \u2013 I was scheduled to be meeting with folks from out of town to help with training them. Ugh! A cancer patient\u2019s nightmare \u2013 PEOPLE packed in a room for HOURS!!\u00a0 I let him know my job was amazingly supportive, and that even with my planned schedule, they\u2019d be able to accommodate me working from home and I\u2019d still be able to deliver my contribution to the trainings. He recommended that I stay home for 2 days \u2013 and give my counts some time to get back up. So I did.<\/p>\n

Again \u2013 so grateful for my amazing support network at work \u2013 a boss who understands, colleagues who are flexible and will work with me to help me get my job done as effectively as I could.\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019m not certain everyone at work really gets how massively important that was to me today \u2013 many of them still don\u2019t even know about my situation, though they\u2019ll likely figure it out once the hats and scarves start making an appearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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