MDA Day 2 and 3

Yesterday was tough. Today was better.
We've had two very long days. Our dentist was great about giving Maura a thorough cleaning/exam/and fillings on less than a day's notice. Then it was off to MDA for Maura's central venous catheter, the kind that enters through a site just under her collar bone and is sutured to her skin. The first person to stick her couldn't find her vein, so they had to call someone else. That caused a lot of extra pain, and the site is still painful, although they've verified by x-ray that everything is where it should be. It's worth it because they can use the central line to deliver her chemo and most other IV stuff. Since she doesn't have great veins for IV's anyway, this will save her a lot of sticks and misses. She was so dehydrated that they gave her two liters of normal saline, which perked her right up. Then, we went to the Sarcoma Center for some quick Chemo Training. Not fun stuff that chemotherapy. We finally left the hospital at about 6:30 p.m. Today we arrived at 6 a.m. for a CT-scan, followed by catheter care training, where I had to pass a test (a demonstration in front of the nurse, using Maura as my test subject)before they'd give me a prescription for the supplies. The last appointment of the day was at 6:30 pm to get an infusion of a drug that is designed to prevent mouth sores in chemo patients.
Maura feels nausea a lot of the time and doesn't want food. I've been chastized by the nurse for trying to get Maura to eat. The nurse assures me that Maura will not starve or suffer malnutrition and I mustn't force her to eat because she can develop an aversion to food and increased nausea from just thinking about food. I can, however, bug her to drink two to three liters of fluids per day.
We thank you for all the emails and notes and comments and prayers and encouragement.