Sometimes the bad with the good

A recap of my conversation with Margie sunday night:

- reducing her daily blood draws to 3 times per week.

-still getting her daily four hour infusion of magnesium that is dramatically lost due to imunosupressants

-friday, I think I reported, Margie felt a bit better after a horrible week.

-saturday, she felt much worse again- Fatigue, vomiting, feels like her mind is "unclear"

-sunday, a little better again

-very hard to orchestrate the food and pill intake-feels sick when she does, has to force fluids and
vomits more than she'd like after food- also has to herself determine(she says "sort through") if any whole pills have come up and re-take. (you can conjure up your own image here)

Hey, you got through the big D and the rash, so you can get through the visuals on this one too!

-Speaking of the big D, has had none which is fantastic news because D is one of the first signs of graft vs. host disease

-pushing fluids

- she also said sunday morning she had a peach with breakfast that was "delicious" Although she vomited it up 2 hours later, I take that as a good sign that she even used the word "delicious". She hasn't used that word for any food in a few months.

All in all, like I titled this post, sometimes the bad comes with the good, but she's got her eye and her heart and her mind on the big picture. And after all, the big picture, or in this case, Margie's wonderful life, is what we're concerned about.

Love to you Mom,
Kathleen