Happy Anniversary to us!

Yes, it is our 32nd anniversary today. What a way to spend it!

Back to chemo this morning after a week off. Darrel was doing really well and said he felt ‘normal’ the past week.

Chemo went okay. The chatty nurse from New Zealand, a self-proclaimed Kiwi, was with us today. She is quite amusing and fun to talk with. However, she also had an issue with the IV.

She found a good vein in kind of an awkward place on the back side of his arm. She slipped the needle in easily enough but when she was flushing it, she pulled it right out. She was quite embarrassed, especially after we had been telling her about the student nurse incident last time.

The first chemo came quickly but then the second one took about 45 minutes. So we were there for about 3 hours this time, 11 – 2.

We were both pretty hungry so we stopped in Georgetown at the Jules Mae Saloon for lunch. We got a pitcher of beer and a burger for Darrel and a pork sandwich for me. Both were really good!

After that, we went down and fed the baby salmon at the marina. For those of you that don’t know, Darrel is involved with Trouts Unlimited and for the last 4 years and has been responsible for a net pen of baby salmon. They are fed once a day or so for about 4 months then are released into the Sound. They come back after 2 years and go up the Des Moines Creek, or swim in circles around the marina.

Came home from that and Darrel laid down and fell asleep for about an hour and a half. Amazing how quickly the chemo fatigues him. The only other issue he has had from the chemo is his hair is starting to fall out. He finds a lot in the shower drain each day, but, from what the nurse and doctor said it may not all come out. We are hoping anyway. It is a daily, visible reminder of what he is going through and what is to come.

That was our exciting anniversary. Hope we have many more.

One more thing, I will be sending invites out but I am having a retirement/60th birthday party for him at the club on March 29, so put it on your calendars now!

Your Old Married Friend, Robin