Chemo 101

Had an experience today that I never really thought I would ever have, never really thought about it I guess. We go through life and live each day, having all kinds of experiences.
Then there is that bump in the road of life that turns us in a different direction than we had planned or in this case never would I have planned this for one of my children.
On Tues Jan. 10 I drove up to SLC, took my mom home because as I said in my last post she came and spent about 2 weeks with us after Christmas. It was fun having her spend some time with us. I came up to be with Des for her 3rd and next to the last round of chemo. I am so excited that she is nearing the end of this portion of this part of her journey with breast cancer. She is about 1/2 way through, by the time she is finished with surgeries and radiation it will be about 11 months to a year, from the time she found out that she had cancer.
Going with her today to be her chemo buddy :) was an experience, I can't really say it was exciting because of what it is that is happening to everyone in the room. I looked around and there were many chairs with men and women in them that was hooked up to bags of chemo streaming through their bodies. There was a man across from us that was having this poison going through his body, for the most part he was sleeping, but then he would wake up and use his little bag that he held in his hand to throw up in, as his wife (I am assuming it was his wife) had tears in her eyes, it made me wonder what his prognosis was. If he was just getting chemo to buy him some time. Then a cute little lady sitting next to Des was very spunky and man could she move, she needed to visit the little ladies room, she jumped up, unplugged herself from the power and strolled her bags with her and she was moving pretty fast for her age. (to and from the ladies room) A very pretty lady sitting on the other side of us, still had a very pretty head of hair, I could tell she was in very good shape, she had a marathon magazine on her table. I wondered if she was going to lose her hear or just what type of chemo was going through her body.
The best part of this experience was sitting next to my sweet daughter going through this very hard thing, looking at Pinterest and blogs with her, something we both enjoy doing. I know that I make chemo sound like a bad thing in which i guess if you look at it as poison going into you body it is a bad thing, but it is the thing that is saving my daughters life, it is killing the real killer, which is the cancer. It was interesting to watch the nurses as they would hang the bags, they would glove up and put on a cover thing over their clothes to hook the people up to the chemo, my thought was "you have to put on all that gear, and you are putting that stuff through my daughters body, how is that possible."
The whole process of this chemo thing is just an amazing thing. I am so so thankful for the medical technology that we are blessed with today. That Desirae is able to go through this very hard thing to be able to continue to be the daughter, the wife and mother that she is.