A good update... Day 8 in captivity

I really am a lucky girl.  I had big ol' kidneys.  They were enlarged due to leukemia which had infiltrated them.  I had 6 days of steroids to try to get them stable.  On Monday June 30, 2014 we started chemotherapy. That's good news because it's progress.  The sooner we start, the sooner we get through.
I don't know what you heard about chemo.  I thought it was awful and violent projectile vomiting and everything you have seen on TV.  So far for me it has has no change.  Modern chemistry has made me very comfortable.  I have not been ill, I have my appetite, and I have energy.  I walk 3.5 miles a day (in laps around the ward). I do my best to be cheerful.  And it has been easy so far.    So far.

I got two really great pieces of news today
The oncologist came in and said I was responding to the chemo very well. Yay.  Keep doing what I have been doing.  Tomorrow is the last day of chemo, then it get a break. Then we hit it again. There is a complicated schedule. I don't have it memorized. It's easy: I am here and they take care of me. Day 18 I will be home, but back on day 22. But right now I am on a slide toward immune deficiency. This is a critical time since I will have no white blood cells.  Then we rebuild.
The next piece of good news came from the kidney specialist.  He is taking me off the I've fluids. That means I will not have giant shreck legs hobbling along the halls. Yay.
Tomorrow will be a good day. Maybe Mom will take a break!