LUNG DRAINED

Delight had to make a quick trip to Dallas Saturday morning. She had to go get her lung drained. She was having a hard time breathing. They drained a little more than a liter off. The doctor is going to set up an appointment every other week for Delight to have that drained since she is going to have to be in Dallas every week anyway. She said that she did nothing but lay around the rest of the weekend. She just took it easy. She is getting ready for Jennifer and her family this weekend. I think they are planning to have a big 4th of July with the whole family!!

Delight has been at work all day today. She has felt really good and she looks great. She is leaving just now at 3:50. I told her that she has put in a full days work. She just laughed and said that she felt like the couch was calling now. It's good to see her feel better.

Kaye

FEELING TIRED

Delight was feeling pretty tired when she came to work today. She got here about 11:15 and stayed until about 3:30. She looked good today but she just did not have the energy or oxygen to talk much. She slept really good last night. But she suspects the chemo pills are making her tired. She said that the couch was calling her name so she was heading that way.

Have a good weekend.

Kaye

GREAT DAY

Our trip to Dallas yesterday was GREAT. Delight was a totally different person Wednesday than the person we were with on Tuesday. It was just a answer to prayer!! She felt like eating at Pappasito's (the food was wonderful) and make just a few stops to shop a little. It was a treat for Tonya & I too because we expected to go straight down to Dallas and straight back. I was glad Delight felt well enough to enjoy our trip.

The hardest thing about the trip was trying to decide where we would eat lunch!

She was at work before 8:00 this morning. She said that she did not sleep good last night. She has been up since about 3:00am. At about 1:00 she decided that she better go on home and rest. She said that she was beginning to hurt and she was very tired. So she has gone home to rest.

Kaye

NOT FEELING GOOD

Delight did not feel like working today. She woke up with a migraine this morning. It was a little better at lunch today. She did not eat much lunch and did not even feel like talking.

Delight called Tonya about 3:15 and said after we left she was able to sleep and she feels 10 times better than she did when we were there at lunch!!!!! That is good!!

Tonya & I will be taking Delight to Dallas tomorrow. We are going in my parents Suburban so she can lay down if she feels like it.

I will post Thursday morning about the trip.

Kaye

ROUGH DAY

Delight came to work today but she really did not feel good at all. She was having problems breathing and her chest was hurting her. She left about 2:30 and she said that her back was hurting her. I am surprised that she stayed that long. She really did not know if the breathing problem was from the lung filling up again or if it was a side effect of the chemo. She goes to Dallas on Wednesday.

Cydne brought the twins to see her today. The tellers had pizza in the kitchen so she was able to share pizza with them. They were wanting to draw her pictures. They sure do love their MIMI.

Kaye

QUITE WEEKEND

Delight is working today and looks really good but has some pain issues. Her back has really been bothering her. She is leaving work now (2:30) to go and visit with the twins. Cydne is bringing them to see mimi and papa. That is the only excitement that she is planning to have this weekend. She is hoping for a quite weekend so she can get a little rest.

Have a good weekend

Kaye

AT WORK BRIGHT & EARLY

Delight was at work at 7:00am this morning and she is still here at 2:15!!! She is having a pretty good day except she is having quite a bit of pain. She had to take some pain pills when we were eating our lunch. She is still wearing the pain patch, too. She has also squeezed in a hair cut today. She finally left about 3:30 and she was really tired. She was going home to rest.

Kaye

STARTING NEW CHEMO TODAY

Delight called and they had just left the doctor's office. The doctor said that the cancer has progressed...... some, not a whole lot. New places were on the chest bone, femur (near hip), spine and the places that he was most concerned about were the 3 new places on the liver. They did blood work on her and she received 3 bottles of pills today. She takes 3 pills a day. She doesn't have a break in taking these pills....she will be taking them for 6 weeks continually each day. She has to go to the doctor weekly to get her blood checked. After 3 weeks they will be doing scans on her. He told her if she was not happy with this chemo after 6 weeks they would change. I asked her about side effects. She said that it has the normal ones. She did say that 50% of the people have really bad fatigue.

She voice sounded really good. They were looking around in Academy when I was talking to her.

Let's pray that this drug will be the answer for Delight.

Kaye

GREAT NEWS!!!!!!!

Delight got a call this morning at 8:00. She passed all of her tests and she was accepted into the clinical trial program!!! She has to be in Dallas tomorrow at 1:00 to get started. The chemo will be in pill form. (the chemo is specifically for the triple negative breast cancer that she has). She sounded really excited!!! She will be coming to work shortly. I'll post again when I find out more info.

Kaye

RESULTS TOMORROW

Delight called on her way home and said that she finished all of her tests. She would know the results tomorrow. They drained her lung while they were there. They removed a liter of fluid. She was very tired and ready to get home.

Kaye

SCANS, SCANS, SCANS & MORE SCANS

Delight called about 2:30 and said that she was SO tired. She said that she had all the scans that she could stand today. Her and Carla were in McKinney on their way home. She said that she slept all the way to Dallas and would probably sleep all the way home. Monday she has a couple more scans & a EKG to take. Then maybe she will know Tuesday if she can be in the clinical trial.

Have a good weekend.

Kaye

CLINICAL TRIAL

Everything that I said yesterday about the chemo schedule has changed. Delight got a call late yesterday afternoon and Dr. Mirtsching wants her to be in the clinical trial if she can pass all of the tests/scans. She will have tests Friday & Monday. If they all turn out good she will be in the clinical trial. The trial chemo is in pill form. She will try this chemo for 8 weeks and then they will do the scans again and she if she has made any improvement. This chemo is for people with triple negative breast cancer. That is the type of cancer Delight has.

Delight looked really good today. She said that she hurt a little, not bad. She has been taking some pain pills pretty regularly.

Riley, Reesha and baby Ayva surprised us at lunch!! We were having Johnice & Jane's birthday parties today. What a nice surprise to have them join our party.

Keep the prayers going for the Eidson's.

Kaye

DECISION ON CHEMO

Delight has now made a decision on what chemo treatment she is going to do. She is going to take the 2 chemos (cisplatin & navelbine) that the doctor had originally planed to give her. She will undergo 3 months of those 2 chemos, if those chemo do not help her she will then start the clinical trial chemo (sutent).

Her marker count had tripled since March. Marker count is determined by testing her blood. The marker count is what told them the cancer is very aggressive.

Kaye

SCANS FRIDAY

The patch Delight is using is Fentanyl Transdermal System.

Terry Joe and Delight were up about all night talking about what they thought would be the best step to take next. She is not for sure if she can qualify for the test chemo. Her heart and brain has to be in tip top shape (along with some other conditions). She is going to have a brain scan done on Friday along with the other scans.

She got the results from her blood work late yesterday. It showed that the cancer is VERY aggressive. The doctor is going to have to be VERY aggressive back. So they are trying to move very quickly.

Delight looks good today. She came to work at about 9:30 today. She was hurting when we got back from lunch so she was going to take some pain pills. She is still here at work now. I hope she will go and rest before her big night out to Rick & Tonya's house. I think I'll make some home made ice cream to tempt them over to my house, too.
I can't let Tonya get ahead of me.

Kaye

WORKED TODAY

Delight came to work today and looked really good. She was hurting somewhat. She was able to stay here until about 2:30. We went to lunch and went bye to see little Ayva Delight. She is growing like a little weed. She is a cutie.

Her scans are going to be Friday. They want to do the scans before she starts her chemo. They are also talking possibly about doing a experimental chemo. Delight was going to talk to Terry Joe about it tonight.

Tonya and I have taken up nursing. We changed her pain patch for her. It took us both to make sure that we did it correctly (and then it's questionable) I don't think anyone would hire us for nursing duty. Delight just lets us work on her because she is needing some relief from pain and we work cheap for her.

Kaye

DELIGHT NEEDS OUR PRAYERS

Delight had a very busy weekend. She was able to go to Relay for Life Friday night. See was able to visit with a lot of people. She enjoyed seeing everyone. Sunday she went to church and out to eat at Papa's.

She left this morning for Dallas at 6:45. Terry Joe had a class starting today so Carla Stauter took her. She was looking forward to talking to the doctor.

The report from the doctor is not good. The pain she has been having is from tumors. She is going to have scans sometime this week. The doctor is changing her chemo. She will start chemo Monday or Tuesday next week. It will be every 3 weeks for 6 or 7 hours. This will be a stronger chemo. This chemo will stop that lung from building up fluid. She doesn't know how many she will have. She is ready to get started. He gave her a prescription for the pain patches.

Please continue to lift Delight up in prayer. She needs every prayer that we can pray for her.

Kaye

TURN AROUND

Guess who showed up to work today with bells on???? She showed up around 10:00 and is still here at 2:45 and going strong!!!! A complete turn around from the past few days!!! Isn't this GREAT news. This must be some kind of PATCH!!!!! Whatever it is she likes it.

Baby Ayva Delight came to see us at the INB this afternoon!! What a beautiful baby. I even got to hold her. She is just precious. Her MIMI was so happy to show her off.

Thanks for all of your prayers for Delight. Keep praying. They are being answered.

Kaye

PATCH IS WORKING

Delight got a patch to help relieve her pain yesterday afternoon. It HAS helped. She said that she still has a little dull pain. She was thankful that it has given her some relief. She was asleep this morning when I had to take her something she needed. She was saying that was the only thing about the patch it that it was making her sleepy. She said that she was going to come to work as soon as she got her shower. I told her that we would be celebrating at lunch today!! She said okay.
I will try and post again later today.

Kaye

ZERO ENERGY

Tonya & I went to take Delight some lunch today. She was in bed sleeping when we got to their house. She did get up to eat with us. She was breathing a lot better but was still in a lot of pain. She took one pain pill and Terry Joe brought in some more in a while and she took another one when he got home. She still doesn't have any energy. She looks good but you can tell she is hurting. It is hard to see her in pain and not be able to do anything about it.

Thanks for all the food. Terry Joe was getting ready to warm something when we were leaving.

Remember to keep her in your prayers.

Kaye

BACK HOME

I talked with Delight about 8:30 last night and she was extremely tired. They made it to the emergency room at about noon yesterday. They did not see the doctor until about 4:00. Apparently they all had some misunderstanding at what time she was going to arrive at the emergency room. Anyway they drained about a liter of fluid. They left about 5 and arrived home about 8:10. It seems that they get stuck in traffic about every time that they go. She will be going to the doctor on Monday to see Dr. Mirtsching (her oncologist) and they will meeting also with the lung doctor (at the same time) to dicuss possibly a different plan of action. Maybe to change what kind of chemo she is taking. She said she will call me this morning and possibly come to work today.

Kaye

STILL AT DALLAS

Terry Joe called about 4:30 and said that they were still in the emergency room. He said that they were going to leave pretty soon. I asked him if they got the lung drained and his phone cut off. I wasn't able to get the answer. I have waited for him to call back but he hasn't as of 5:00. So I don't know anything else to tell you. I'll post in the morning.

Kaye

DALLAS

Terry Joe and Delight will be going to Dallas this morning to get the lung drained. The doctor is meeting them in the emergency room. If I hear anything else today I will post again.

Kaye

JUST DEAL WITH THE PAIN????

Delight talked with the nurse yesterday afternoon and they told her that they THINK all her pain is from her surgery from when they sealed her lung. They told her just to take the pain pills more often. She told Delight that she would have the pain whether she was laying down, standing up or whatever she was doing. Delight said that she is NOT having the surgery on the other lung. She would just go to Dallas every other week and have it drained if she had to. They did go ahead and make her an appointment(with the surgeon) for Monday if she feels like she has not improved. If the pain gets unbearable she is to go to the emergency room.

Walter, Tonya & I went to have lunch with Delight. She isn't coming to work today. She is still in lots of pain. She did call the lung doctor while we were there. They will call her back sometime this afternoon to schedule a appointment for her to come and have her lung drained.

Please pray that Delight will have a good day soon. She said that she wishes she could have one good day.

Kaye

ROUGH MONDAY

Delight called and said that she was not coming to work this morning. She said that she was just hurting to much. She was trying to decide which doctor to call. (she didn't know whether to call the lung doctor or her oncologist) She said that she had a tightness in her chest, her breathing was bad, and her right side was hurting really bad. Terry Joe had to run a quick errand and would be back shortly in case they had to go to Dallas. She said that she would call me back when she found out what she was going to be doing.

Kaye