Everything is back on track now, but we had a big scare this morning; Vicki's blood pressure spiked very high which caused her a great deal of fear and discomfort. After some medication started to bring it back in line she felt quite a bit better, and resumed her campaign to get me to sell my condo and move to Clayton, making lists of books to be returned to the library, and checking e-mail - all at the same time.
Her blood pressure remained very high for several hours and there was some possibility of temporarily suspending the chemotherapy, but the medication finally kicked in as the morning progressed. By lunch time her blood pressure got down to an acceptable level and the doctors gave the O.K. to start the next batch of chemotherapy drugs. She will remain on the blood pressure medication while she's on chemo and the doctors say they don't expect another spike like she experienced this morning.
So far Vicki has only had a little bit of nausea. She had a full lunch and even got unhooked from her IVs long enough to take a nice shower and get into some clean jammies. We also learned that her white cell and platelet counts are up, which was an unexpected improvement.
Jack finally agreed to have a cot made up in Vicki's room and spent much of the morning horizontal. I'm not sure that he was exactly relaxing, but it's progress.
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