Day 61 at Cancer Treatment Centers of America

Monday, July 28th, 2014

    This morning we arrived at the CTCA at 8:00 a.m..  Meemaw could not walk much so I had to run in and go get a wheelchair for her.  I let her sit down and then we went in for her appointments.  She had radiation at 8:45 a.m., so I pushed her all the way down to radiology and I got her checked in.  The nurse said that we could go on back to the radiation waiting room already.  Today was a fast and I mean really fast day, we sat down in the waiting room and within ten minutes the nurse took her back.  I went to the lobby and sat down with Uncle Bubba, Papa, and my little sister Kayleigh.

We went to the new Cancer Fighters Center and it was really neat.  They aren't completely finished with it.   We stayed for about ten minutes then we went back down stairs to wait on Meemaw.

The pictures hanging in the Cancer Fighters Center

In about 5 more minutes Meemaw came out and it was time for our next appointment on the schedule.

 Next on the schedule was a blood draw.  Then, she had to get an x-ray on her stomach because she had been experiencing stomach pains and nausea this past weekend.  Uncle Bubba, Meemaw and I had to go back into a room to see the Quality of Life doctor.  The doctor came in and told us that everything was fine and normal with her x-ray and blood work except for her potassium again. Her docter gave her some kind of liquid called kayexalate that reduces her potassium and it makes her use the bathroom (if you know what I mean).  Then we got in the car and went home and when we got home she drank it but it did nothing to her!  Weird right?