Meghan’s Journey: The Story of Meghan Redenbach: The Teenage Girl Who Showed a Community How to “Man Up” in the Face of Cancer by Meghan Redenbach
Authors: Meghan Redenbach
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She had fun.
Saturday, May 23
Meg called in the morning and wanted to go shopping with Courtney and her mom around. I let her go because we were just working around the house and she would complain she was bored. She got home around 5:00.
Sunday, May 24
Meg slept in today. She came outside and saw that Mike had rented a backhoe, and she was in her glory. Mike taught her how to work it and she worked right alongside him. It was really cute. We worked all day. We went to Dee and Chuck’s for dinner. It was a beautiful day. We went to Mike’s hockey game at 10:50 p.m. Mike ended up not playing because his knee was bothering him, so Nick took his place. He did pretty well. We got home at one in the morning.
Monday, May 25
Meg slept in today. We invited Grandma over for the day while we worked around the house. She came over and brought a great steak dinner. She knows Meg loves steak. She went home around in the evening. Meg helped again on the backhoe and worked to finish up her Earth Science labs, and she did it. Mrs. B. came over to pick up the lab book and some other homework that Meg finished. We were in bed pretty early as we had to be at Roswell by 9:30 a.m. for Meg’s 8 th treatment. ONE MORE TO GO!!!!
Tuesday, May 26
We arrived at Roswell at 9:30 a.m. and had our favorite room. When we got here I asked about Meg’s Echo test she had to have before chemo. The nurse checked on it and said yes, she needed it done. The problem is they forgot to schedule it during the week so they had to try to squeeze it in at 2:30. Therefore, we had to sit around for 5 hours. Brandee and Kristin (the social worker and psychologist) came in and asked Meghan if she would like to make a new video for the Outreach Program; it would be shown at schools that have kids with cancer. It was supposed to be a quick thing and it ended up taking one and a half hours, then it was time to go for the Echo, which came out awesome. (70%). Whatever that means in Echo terms. Doing the video really kept Meg’s mind off of things. We ordered dinner at 3:00 because all three of us were starving. We were going to go out to lunch, but the videotaping mixed up everything. Mike and I went out to go to the bathroom and Meghan went in her room. We weren’t gone five minutes, came back and she was throwing up. She said it was the smell in the bathroom. I talked to the nurse and Dr. B about keeping everything the same as last time, as it worked well. When they brought in the Emend it was in pill form; last time it was in IV form, and they didn’t give her IV Decadron. Those are the two main things that need to be the same. They called and had the meds changed, which pushed back the chemo until 10:30 p.m. for the first bag, and 11:40 for the second bag. Chemo ended at 2:45 a.m. Meg slept through the entire night. You really have to watch everything.
Wednesday, May 27
Meg is still sleeping and it is almost 11:00 a.m. She said she feels fine. They are going to keep giving her the Ativan right straight through so she doesn’t get the anxiety before treatment. I spoke with Dr. B about the meds not being right, and she said that she would look up everything and change it. She insists that she never had IV Emend, but she did. She said it doesn’t come in IV form. The nurse will also check to see what she had. The nurse checked and I was right—she had IV Emend. She was probably the first person to receive it.
They are going to start chemo a couple of hours early. Meg got up around 11:30 a.m. and wanted hot chocolate and graham crackers. Debbie came to visit around 2:30 and stayed for an hour. She had to work at 4:00. Bethany came up tonight and of course brought everything in sight to eat. Meg will be getting Zofran and Ativan around the clock. Bethany left at 9:30. Meg had cheese sticks, graham crackers, and barbecue chips for dinner. The thing she liked most was the lemonade from Panera. They started chemo around 10:30 p.m. when Meg fell asleep. She kept
Saturday, May 23
Meg called in the morning and wanted to go shopping with Courtney and her mom around. I let her go because we were just working around the house and she would complain she was bored. She got home around 5:00.
Sunday, May 24
Meg slept in today. She came outside and saw that Mike had rented a backhoe, and she was in her glory. Mike taught her how to work it and she worked right alongside him. It was really cute. We worked all day. We went to Dee and Chuck’s for dinner. It was a beautiful day. We went to Mike’s hockey game at 10:50 p.m. Mike ended up not playing because his knee was bothering him, so Nick took his place. He did pretty well. We got home at one in the morning.
Monday, May 25
Meg slept in today. We invited Grandma over for the day while we worked around the house. She came over and brought a great steak dinner. She knows Meg loves steak. She went home around in the evening. Meg helped again on the backhoe and worked to finish up her Earth Science labs, and she did it. Mrs. B. came over to pick up the lab book and some other homework that Meg finished. We were in bed pretty early as we had to be at Roswell by 9:30 a.m. for Meg’s 8 th treatment. ONE MORE TO GO!!!!
Tuesday, May 26
We arrived at Roswell at 9:30 a.m. and had our favorite room. When we got here I asked about Meg’s Echo test she had to have before chemo. The nurse checked on it and said yes, she needed it done. The problem is they forgot to schedule it during the week so they had to try to squeeze it in at 2:30. Therefore, we had to sit around for 5 hours. Brandee and Kristin (the social worker and psychologist) came in and asked Meghan if she would like to make a new video for the Outreach Program; it would be shown at schools that have kids with cancer. It was supposed to be a quick thing and it ended up taking one and a half hours, then it was time to go for the Echo, which came out awesome. (70%). Whatever that means in Echo terms. Doing the video really kept Meg’s mind off of things. We ordered dinner at 3:00 because all three of us were starving. We were going to go out to lunch, but the videotaping mixed up everything. Mike and I went out to go to the bathroom and Meghan went in her room. We weren’t gone five minutes, came back and she was throwing up. She said it was the smell in the bathroom. I talked to the nurse and Dr. B about keeping everything the same as last time, as it worked well. When they brought in the Emend it was in pill form; last time it was in IV form, and they didn’t give her IV Decadron. Those are the two main things that need to be the same. They called and had the meds changed, which pushed back the chemo until 10:30 p.m. for the first bag, and 11:40 for the second bag. Chemo ended at 2:45 a.m. Meg slept through the entire night. You really have to watch everything.
Wednesday, May 27
Meg is still sleeping and it is almost 11:00 a.m. She said she feels fine. They are going to keep giving her the Ativan right straight through so she doesn’t get the anxiety before treatment. I spoke with Dr. B about the meds not being right, and she said that she would look up everything and change it. She insists that she never had IV Emend, but she did. She said it doesn’t come in IV form. The nurse will also check to see what she had. The nurse checked and I was right—she had IV Emend. She was probably the first person to receive it.
They are going to start chemo a couple of hours early. Meg got up around 11:30 a.m. and wanted hot chocolate and graham crackers. Debbie came to visit around 2:30 and stayed for an hour. She had to work at 4:00. Bethany came up tonight and of course brought everything in sight to eat. Meg will be getting Zofran and Ativan around the clock. Bethany left at 9:30. Meg had cheese sticks, graham crackers, and barbecue chips for dinner. The thing she liked most was the lemonade from Panera. They started chemo around 10:30 p.m. when Meg fell asleep. She kept
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