Upcoming Schedule

Hi everyone. We hope you've had a nice weekend. We started off ours back at Evanston Hospital for the placement of Sara's port. This device in her arm will allow easy and repeated access for blood draws, IV's and chemotherapy infusions. It was a little weird to be back at ambulatory surgery so soon after the mastectomy -- same waiting room, same nurses, etc. Regardless, the procedure was quick and relatively easy and we were home within 4 hours. Sara was sore that first day, but feels much better now, everything considered.

The chemo schedule has been set in place. The first infusion will be on Tuesday June 15 and the next three sessions will then follow in three-week intervals. The plan is for the last infusion (of this first phase) to be on August 17 and then the OB's will induce the delivery about 10 days later. All of this, of course, is subject to change, but right now there's no reason to think it will. (Sara will be 37 weeks pregnant at that time).

Once our baby arrives, Sara will then begin phase 2 of her chemotherapy which will take us out to approximately the end of November. Radiation will then begin after a short recovery period.

Yep, it IS a lot. However, we are just going to focus on what's directly in front of us rather than on the whole picture. It's all about taking it one small step at a time.

Thank you to everyone who has helped us out with meals. It was much more of a help than we could have imagined! (By the way, Sara has actually gained 3 pounds and Margo now asks for dessert after every meal . . . breakfast included!). We will begin posting some additional dates on the meal calendar to coincide with Sara's chemo treatments. We just need to get a sense of which days will be the most helpful.

Please keep Sara and the baby in your thoughts. When you have your next glass of wine (or something stronger) give a hearty toast to good health!

Brian