4/10 - Day 2, Cycle 2: Chemo

Not much to report today. Kristine is doing well. She's very tired but is able to awaken for short periods to talk or even play a short game of hearts with her mom and sister Colette.

The hospital has therapy dogs visit the patients periodically. Today, Annie, a young Chocolate Lab, came by the cancer center (we really should have gotten a photo).

Colette did some research on wigs for Kristine (at the rate she's losing her hair she'll likely be bald by week's end). Apparently, many insurance companies cover the cost of a wig for cancer patients with a prescription. That's right a prescription. And like any prescription it can't just be written in English, the wig needs a medical term -- cranial prostheses. So, at some point when Kristine's feeling up to it she'll be fitted and fashioned with a new cranial prostheses (a wig) to treat her condition of alopecia (baldness) courtesy of our insurance company.

I also thought that I would share one last thing. I ran across a great article in the April 9th addition of Newsweek entitled, "My Life With Cancer." The author, Jonathan Alter a Newsweek corespondent, shares the story of his battle with cancer. His story is candid and honest and he offers some great insight from his own fight against the disease. It's worth the read http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17888476/site/newsweek/.