Was Wednesday the bottom?

Mary is clearly feeling better today--no headache--but not as good as pre-chemo by a long shot. My indicator is her interest in preparing dinner. Up through Sunday she was in the kitchen with me or on her own fixing meals and adding Mary flavors to the meal. Tonight she joined me as the food hit the table--same as last night.

So we are hoping she gets stronger each day now and Wednesday was the worst. We realize the expectation is that she will get weaker each week of the three weeks and then the week off will allow her to gain a bit more strength.

Chemo, is by design, attacking fast growing cells but it also impacts normally growing cells too. The idea is that the fast growing cells are the cancer cells and that those cells are killed off before the normal cells are wiped out. In other words, Mary is experiencing the equivalent of being hit by a truck during each chemo session. And, remember, this was classified as mild chemo.