Servile -- Word for the Day -- Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Servile
DEFINITION: (adjective) like a servant.

4.2 million collected yesterday!!!! Need 16 million more.

Hooked up at 8:00 a.m. and to keep us from having to be detained as we were last evening, blood, platelets and magnesium was done in the Apheresis (stem cell collection) section. We only have to go in later for a shot and disconnect from the magnesium.

Surely you have heard that our bodies are our temples. Well, Chemo Sabe is surely a servile to his body these days. He is certainly a changed man, physically, mentally and spiritually through this process. I don't know if I have mentioned it in past blogs, but he evens smells differently. A refreshed, pure smell I just can't seem to describe. I have tried to explain it as a dryer sheet that has been through the drying process and all the smell good is out of it, but it still has a clean, brisk smell. I know.... I'm weird. But, this just lets you know what the patients have endured.

You probably still are thinking that he can get ready quicker now when it is time to go... Nope, he is running the razor over his head each morning AND EVENING!!! His facial hair is null, so I am guessing he is bored in the bathroom! ha We still have eyebrows and eyelashes. We feel sure he will not lose those, but we have been sure about the no-pain deal, too.

I have my hopes up about him getting discharged Friday. He is chomping at the bit to go back to work for a week or two. Then the process begins again.

Servile is the word I will use today to describe the many people that have helped us thus far. Family, friends and the ladies at the church here that answer the phone for me while I am out. It is nothing for these people to rearrange their day, or evening (Sister) to take care of things we are not able to. Thank you...

I probably won't blog tonight in hopes we will have extra time to relax.

Love -- Pepper