Feb. 21

Saturday morning Megan woke up and felt like she was ready to head home and see her doggies, so we finally made it home on Saturday evening around 5:30. She did pretty good on the car ride home. She wore sunglasses and luckily it was a cloudy day and getting dark by the time we got home. She was so excited to see the dogs. Of course I wasn't, because they were a muddy mess from all the melting snow so I had to give them both a bath before I would let them loose in the house. And after 2 weeks of sleeping on that couch, my back wasn't much in the mood for leaning over the tub to give 2 dogs a bath, not to mention cleaning the kitchen floor that was a muddy mess. :)

Megan is starting to feel a bit better for parts of each day more and more. She can have a light on for part of the day and watch maybe 30 minutes of TV once or twice a day. She's enjoyed looking at her magazines getting caught up on all the teen stars gossip and looking at the prom dresses. :0)

So I've started our own pharmacy out of my bedroom. There are seriously tooo many drugs in one hosehold. She has 13 medications equaling taking 24 pills, 2 shots, 2 liquids, 2 puffs and 2 sprays each day. We got a fancy pill holder for 4 times a day and a dry erase board we hung on the bathroom door with a medicine schedule written on it. I freaked when I saw the bill for the shots - the insurance would only pay for 15 days at a time, so 2 copays of $35 each, but each presciption cost $1,630. Good golly!

A big thanks to our Girl Scout leader friends who have begun bringing us dinners. Plus lots of paper plates and cups are a huge help to cut down on dishes. Not very earth wise, but probably just easier for now. :)

We head to the oncologist tomorrow. She has a rash on her neck - and her face, hands and left leg are tingly - so we need to ask about those and the pharmacy never got her prevacid prescription right and her stomach is hurting very often, they say from lots of extra acid from meds. Tums are kind of working right now but need to get the prevacid I guess.

My room is all set up with all her gifts, flowers, stuffed animals and lots of cards. It's definitely kid friendly - and close to the bathroom. :) Pepper is happy to be sleeping with Megan again and I do believe it's very good therapy for Megan too. :0)-