<p>Hopefully your bowels will cooperate from now on, and the trip to Asia will come off without a hitch! Of any kind… ;)</p>
<p>Keeping you in my thoughts and prayers!</p>
<p>thanks for kind words and encouragements.</p>
<p>Late PM yesterday, I got back home after a 7 day stay at MSKCC. The bowel obstruction has cleared. They let me have low reside solid food. However, I am planning to stay on a liquid diet indefinitely, or at least until get back from Asia. I just can’t risk another episode like this.</p>
<p>It’s been rough going ---- not just because of the whole episode, but because H was not feeling well at all during this whole period. Plus,there was an additional emotional turmoil, which I do not want to discuss on a public forum.</p>
<p>The drama was raging even on the day I was being discharged. There was a real possibility that as I am being discharged, My H may have to be hospitalized. </p>
<p>My friend almost had to bring one cargo to NYU to drop off, and pick up another from MSKCC! Luckily, she only had to pick one up from MSKCC…</p>
<p>I am so exhausted. I don’t think I was ever so exhausted in my life. Last night, I found myself debating internally whether to brush my teeth or wash my face with what little energy I had. I ended up doing neither.</p>
<p>The exhaustion is not just due to the fact that out of last 7 days, for six days, I had practically zero calories. It’s also a delayed reaction. At MSKCC, I did not want to be this sickly patient. So, I went into a full performance mode. I was the cheeriest patient, NG tube or not. I was everybody’s favorite patient. I made the staff laugh.</p>
<p>Now, I am having a delayed reaction. I wore that “cheery patient” persona like an exoskeleton. when I left MSKCC, it melted away, and the content inside just spilled over on the floor. Today, I am trying to scoop it up off the floor and shape it back to a reasonable semblance of me. </p>
<p>I will bounce back. I always do. It will take a day or two…</p>
<p>Have only read your last post (opened it because I saw that the OP was posting) and want to send you all the best wishes/strength/good thoughts I can. Your writing is extraordinary, as you must be, and I don’t doubt you are a favored patient. Please use this forum as a safe dumping ground, and continue to take care of yourself.</p>
<p>Sunrise - Glad you are back home, I hope you get some needed rest! You don’t have to put on that cheery face here. Vent away. And I really hope that your husband’s condition improves also.</p>
<p>I’m glad you’re home, too. And, yes. It is exhausting being cheerful all the time. Even for healthy people. So, you certainly deserve your rest and a chance to turn off the smile.</p>
<p>So glad you are home, and please no cheery faces needed for us. We are here for you. You have taught us all with such grace and courage. </p>
<p>Best for a peaceful night for you and your husband.</p>
<p>Hi Sunrise-- So happy to read you are home this evening. I hope that you will feel cozy in your own bed and that you get a good nights sleep! I hope your husband is feeling better, too. Take care!</p>
<p>When I was on chemo and not tolerating food, I drank enlive protein drinks. They were clear liquids and I could absorb them, while everything else seemed to go through me. Hoping you stay unblocked, hoping you and your husband are having a better time of it.</p>
<p>sunrise, what an awful week you’ve had! I hope that it is all uphill from here, for both you and your husband.</p>
<p>Really happy to hear you are home.</p>
<p>And many of us collapse when the time comes, even when we are dealing with far less than you.</p>
<p>ySunrise, I hope you get some refreshing sleep tonight.</p>
<p>Being home and sleeping in your own bed beside your DH is the best medicine.</p>
<p>Hope you had a restful night, Sunrise. There’s a lot to be said for sleeping in your own bed. :)</p>
<p>I hope being in your own sweet home helps you regather your strength, and I hope your husband is doing better as well.</p>
<p>Hope you had a good night’s sleep!</p>
<p>Sunrise, thinking about you this morning. How are you?</p>
<p>Thinking of you, Sunrise. Sending good thoughts.</p>
<p>Hi Sunrise, hope all is well with you and your DH.</p>
<p>Thinking of you, sunrise.</p>
<p>I am hoping to read your dispatches from Asia soon!</p>