Chemo this week

Thank you for the tips - they are all helpful.  

The difficult thing with the children is we have all of our family interstate, so my Mum is coming to stay with us for a week - 10 days with each treatment to help out as my husband works quite long hours and while his work is flexible, I thinkit is important for him to maintain as much of that as he can too. Usually he travels a lot also which has been pretty much halted for the time being.  

I have lists for the kids and routines that we are trying to follow.  The girls are 6 and 9 and pretty good usually - they are more emotive about what we are going through whereas my 4 year old son has become quite obsessional about his food preparation in particular but also who helps him with things like getting dressed, bathing etc...  He is very unhappy with my Mum being around so much and helping with school pickups and the like while my mum just wants to help - its all a little soul destroying at times.  

We have put a chart together for each of them to reward positive behaviour so hopefully that will help somewhat too.  

I bought a wig today and put in on for the kids this afternoon and it took them a few moments to notice so I guess that is a good sign.  I don't expect to wear it too much and I also bought a headband that should cover my whole head and keep it warm as it cools down here.  Mum  bought me a range of scarves from the site you mentioned Tonya and they are beautiful - I just need a little more movement in my arm to get to tie them up at the back.  

I bought myself a few of the supplies you mentioned today - I love Ginger beer - wonder if that will be any good?  I think am nearly ready to get going with this thing and get started - Mum bought me a Pandora bracelet the other day - i had the idea that I would mark off each treatment milestone with a charm.  I started with a peridot for my birthstone, a pink stone as I'm a "girl", a bought the pink ribbon charm to symbolise my diagnosis and a tree of life charm for my surgery as this will save my life.  Already it means a lot to wear it. 

I think we will talk through the routine thing a little more with the family and hopefully the house will run a little smoother. 

Thank you. :-)