try not to be sick Saturday!

Hey! Mackenzie blogging today with the basic update... Emily got the chemo drugs in the hospital and held up just fine on the fluids. She was able to come home yesterday on the condition that fluids continue here. The nausea didn't kick in until yesterday, as she was making her way here back home. She felt awful all day and kept her head under her blankie and said probably 3 words and just slept. The home-health care nurse was here last night and the fluids pumped overnight made her feel a lot better and this will happen again tonight. The good news is that she is in not pain, just constantly feels miserable from the nausea. She woke up today feeling better and is force feeding some gatorade and cheerios and rice. She still can't hear us talk about food, watch food commercials, or even think about any kind of food that actually has flavor. As you know, this is so weird for my sister because normally she eats SO SO SO much of everything (this shows in the 20ish pounds she has lost since the start of all of this). Today has been girls day for us! My mom and sister and both of our golden retriever sisters are in bed watching movies and tv and relaxing. We call Lily and Daisy "Nurses" now because they sleep here with Emily and actually make her feel comforted when we can't be in the room. The reason Emily did not want to write this blog is because even thinking about the chemo and how she reacts makes her wanna get sick but these days, what doesn't make her want to get sick. If she hasn't responded to you when you ask how she is doing, its because talking about it makes her wanna be sick! She is recently comforted by the thought that nothing in her life will ever be harder than what she is going through now and a simple 24 hour flu will be a piece of cake for her. We all want to go on vacation more than anything, anything at all. UGH we will when this "nightmare" is over... Love from all of the Evans girls and Todd and Joe, too! ps dad look i finally blogged :)