Week One and Wedding.

So this week has definitely been a hectic one. Thursday, the 21st, was mom's first day at chemo. This is her third battle with chemo and it doesn't get any easier. Actually, this time is was harder because it was just like the first one. A little bit after starting it, she felt her tongue and lips tingling. We mentioned it to her nurse, so she stopped the medicine for a little bit. She then started it back up again, slowly. Her nurse decided to stay with her and keep an eye on her this time, and even noticed her starting to sweat and lose focus before my mom even realized it. Her nurse's name is Rachel, and she's definitely a God-send. She immediately stopped it and called the doctor over to check on her. They stopped for twenty minutes and gave her benadryl to lessen the allergic reaction. After they started her back up again, she was doing much better. 


Saturday afternoon we left for Pennsylvania for my cousin Giulia's wedding. Fifteen minutes into it, we got stuck into a huge snowstorm. We then got lost a little bit and my ezpass stopped working, then we got stuck in stand-still traffic. Our 4 1/2 hour trip turned into a 9 hour trip. But it was probably the best trip of my life. I'm so glad I had Jordan with me. Once we finally got there, we hung out for a bit, but definitely crashed.. quick, haha. On Sunday, the day of the wedding, was such a longgg day. Seeing everyone, was so incredibly great, for the most part. Some people I could've gone without seeing, but it is what it is. Whenever someone would come up to me and say hi or vice versa, the first thing was "Hey Angela, good to see you. How's your mom?". It was so great to see everyone actually care or at least pretend to, but after so many people asking about her, it got hard. I remember a certain moment when my little cousin Jack (and by little, I mean 6 foot and 18 years old) asked me how she was. He hugged me and told me to tell her that he's thinking of her. It was just so meaningful because we moved away when Jack was young. He hasn't been close to her and we've never been best friends, but he cared. Knowing even that little bit, meant so much.. enough to wear I almost broke down. I tried to avoid the subject of her being in chemo a lot, because we were in fact at a wedding. It was supposed to be a joyous time, not a time to dwell on things. But I knew that even if I talked about it, Giulia wouldn't mind. She is such a kind hearted person that she knew people would want to get updates on my mom. 


All in all, it was a great weekend. I'm so glad that I decided to go and see everyone. So this is the end of my first real post, so hopefully it wasn't too crappy.

Lets see how this goes.

So this is new to me and I don't really know what I'm doing.. so please bear with me. It's gonna suck, that's for sure. Don't hate on my blog please. It's mainly just so I can talk about everything that I'm dealing with during mom's chemo treatments and how I'm coping the rest of the time. It'll definitely be interesting to say the least. And by interesting, I mean this whole blogging thing.