Morning Sickness

Overall, Nonnie's spinal tap procedure went pretty well yesterday. The worst part was having to don a face mask and be taken through the hospital and down the elevator to the treatment room. Nonnie said she felt alone and scared because all of the machines and noise going on during her procedure. She just closed her eyes and prayed and within 35 minutes, she was back in her room. 

This morning, Nonnie began to feel her first symptoms from the chemotherapy treatment. She complained of the worst nausea you could imagine. Fortunately, she did not get sick. Her nurse gave her Compazine to help with the symptoms to no avail. They ended up giving her Zofran, which was the profalactic anti-nausea medication that was discontinued last week. Within 15 minutes, the symptoms were gone.  

I spoke with her tonight and as you could imagine, she is getting tired of looking at the same 4 walls! Nonnie took a nice walk with a student nurse tonight and she stayed and visited for about an hour. I can only think of the lasting impression that Nonnie must have left with this young nurse and how happy she must feel to have gone into nursing!