The good, the bad, and the ugly

If this looks too long... read what's under the asterisks - it's the important stuff... but the beginning is something Kathie wanted on here.

So, Kathie called Lauren on Saturday to put a "funny" story on the blog... but Lauren did not have access to the internet until today.... so here's that part:

*WARNING* Bathroom humor is present... and honestly, that's just the way we like it these days...

Saturday, Kathie was finding herself a bit blocked up (while being visited by her very good friend, Glenda)... and pulled out a couple of the muffins specified for constipation issues, made by Lauren and stocked in the freezer. The pain meds have that lovely side effect... or they cause the reverse, in which case there is a casserole in the freezer with that label. (Cancer cookbooks are divided by symptoms).

She ate one muffin and waited a bit, wondering if she was going to have to take another sapasitory (sp?)... but thought she'd give a second muffin a try before popping yet another pill. Alas, a couple hours later she had a "movement" that would please any man if it were his own.

The end of the story was apparently funnier when spoken between Glenda and Kathie... but the punchline is supposed to be something like.... "The fish that got away." I understand the joke, but I'll let you take it how you want... I think it's funnier that way.... it's the little things in life these days.

Lauren was simply pleased that she had done something helpful while at home. By the way, if you ever have a little "stop-up" issue, the Zucchini Raisan muffins are really quite tasty.

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Thank you to those that prayed for Jeannie... not quite a miracle, but she had some positive test results while at MD Anderson last week:)

On a less happy/humorous note... Kathie started spiking a fever again on Saturday... nothing too big, and it went down fairly quickly. Yesterday, however, it started going up again, reaching 101.3 (a "call the doctor ASAP" temp with cancer), but got it back down with some tylenol - as suggested by doctor. She took her temp again at 3 AM and it was back up, but "Dr. DuCharme" (slash, she didn't want to go sit in a hospital at 3 AM over sleeping), decided to take some more tylenol and skip the phone call to the late night group until this morning, since she had a blood draw scheduled for today anyway. Unfortunately, the blood test results came back with a not-so-good finding - she basically has no white blood cells. Kathie was told to report ASAP to ICU and checked in around 2 this afternoon. We're not sure what exactly the protocol is for this situation, so we're waiting and seeing how she is treated for the problem, and I'll try to update later this afternoon if I have any news. DO NOT CALL BOB RIGHT NOW and ask how she's doing... If you must, call Lauren, but really, all the news I've got is on here.