Chemotherapy and General Life

Well, on thursday I went for the weekly Chemo treatment only to have the nurse ask,
"Did the Doctor say anything about stopping for a week and giving you a break?"
Me: "No, he mentioned that he wanted this round treatments to be for a straight 8 weeks, why?"
Nurse: "Well, the order is written Same as before, for 8 weeks! I am concerned since the previous order was written that you had 4 treatments, then 2 weeks off, then came back for 2 more."
Me: "I understood it to be a straight 8 weeks and no breaks."
Nurse: "Let me confirm with the Doctor to make sure that is what he wants, since you had the break the last time."
She walks away and calls the other Office and comes back to take care of another patient who is there to get treatment. approx 20 minutes later the Nurse comes up to me and asks.
Nurse: "Are you experiencing any heavy fatigue or uncontrollable diarrhea?"
Me: "What do you mean by Heavy Fatigue? Sure, I am tired when I get home from working 10 hours a day for 4 days in a row, but I usually fall asleep early and go about my day."
Nurse: "Heavy Fatigue would be like you are tired all the time and feel like you're not getting enough sleep at night! We are concerned since this one of the side-effects of the Comptosar, along with the uncontrollable diarrhea. Seeing how your blood counts are borderline and you seem to be doing really good with the treatment, the Doctor wants to make sure that you're not suffering for the Toxicity build up."
Me:"Well that is good to hear that someone is looking out for this and did not know of the side-effects of the Comptosar."
Nurse:"Well, what we will do then is re-evaluate you each week and if you are suffering from them, then we will not give you treatment that week and let have it off."
Me: Shrugging my shoulders "That is fine with me"
The Nurse walks away and gets things going, since I was already sitting in the Chair with the needle in my Port and ready to go. I forgot to grab the Cell Phone and also forgot to ask the Nurse to call Carmen to let her know of the delay. So needless to say Carmen, came to pick me up and was shocked that the treatment was running longer then the initial 2 hours.

On the home front, Noah went to the Homecoming Football Game Friday night and then to the Dance last night. He was reluctant about going to the Dance, since he thought that it was required that he have a Tux or Suit to wear, but we found out as long as he had a nice pair of dress slacks, shirt and a tie he would be able to go. So, Friday Morning Carmen made sure that he had the money for the Ticket, an made sure that he had his School ID and sent him off to school. Backing up a little, on Wednesday afternoon, Carmen and I looked at another house to rent, it is a 2 bed with full basement, which is dry, and it has Thermal Insulated Windows through out the house and the Landlord said that he had all the walls insulated with the Spray Foam and in the Winter his average heating bill was around $90. No Central Air, but he also said that 2 window AC Units would chill the enire first floor to near sub-zero in a matter of hours. After discussing the things that we found wrong, Kitchen Cabinet Drawers seemed to be dirty looking to Carmen and the Refrig being a little smaller then the one that we have, we've decided to call the Landlord back and tell him that we are interested in renting it. This will give us a house that has the Shower, Full Basement, Garage and a Dining Area, which we don't have now.
More about the house when we've had a chance to talk with the Landlord. Otherwise, everything is going pretty good. Carmen is still looking for work and scrapbooking when she has a chance too. Noah is settling into school and skating after school and on the weekends while the weather is still nice enough.