Numero Dos!

Yay for more cancer dying!!!  I had my second chemotherapy treatment today, and everything went so well.  Seriously, getting chemo is no big deal, at least my kind of chemo isn't.  The nurses just hook me up like a wall outlet, and I'm good to go!  As a matter of fact, the night after I have chemo, I feel GREAT!!!  I mean, hyper, bouncing off of the walls, can't go to sleep (hence the fact that I'm writing this now) type of feel great!  I asked the nurses about it today, and they just laughed and said it was because of the steroid they give me while administering chemo.  So, they are trying to make my hair grow while the chemo is trying to make it fall out (lots of shedding now, btw)?????  I'm totally okay with that!
Update on my blood levels: all is well!  I am no longer neutropenic, so I can actually return to society.  Happy day!  I still have to wash my hands all of the time, plus I'm cautious around people, just as precaution.  However, I LOVE being able to see my friends and be back in the real world!  In order to keep my social calendar satisfied, I will be given a shot tomorrow of a drug called Neulasta.  This medication helps my bone marrow make white blood cells so I don't become Neutropenic.  My doctor had to wait and see how I would respond to chemo for the first treatment, but now that he knows that my body soaks it up and my levels fall, I will get this shot the day after every treatment.
While I was at the clinic today having lab work and treatment done, I also had an appointment with my doctor.  He said I looked really good (I'm not really sure what he expected me to look like, but there it is...).  He also felt in my lower neck area where there were some prominent nodes, and said he couldn't feel them (even he seemed a bit surprised)!  In your face, cancer!!!!  How do you like that??!  I guess that is the one good thing about being hyper-sensitive to medication (for example: any "may cause slight drowsiness in 2% of patients" knocks me on my back for a good 24 hours!!!)--my body soaks up the chemo, meaning the cancer has to eat it too! HAHA
So, I know everyone reading this wants updates about me, which is why I posted the three paragraphs above--yes, there are actually three--(btw, I really appreciate everyone's support and time spent caring about my silly life...seriously, it means more than you all will ever know).   However, my sister could use some prayers as well, so if you're interested in both Reeder girls, keep reading...please and thank you!
Cha' has been sent to the ER twice in the past week.  She contracted that evil and nasty stomach virus that has been making its way around Stilly, and let's just say she saw much of her meals twice that week.  She went to a regular physician, got some meds, and was actually doing much better this weekend (other than stressing about all of the work she had missed in school).  Then, on Tuesday morning, my family and I find out that she has thrown up over 30 times in the past couple of hours.  We quickly call her wonderful and sweet boyfriend, Wyatt, to take straight to the ER (he was also instructed to dismiss any arguing made by the patient, including those rebellions in the form of kicking or screaming).  She went to the ER, where they worked on subsiding her symptoms.  Once they got her symptoms at least decently subdued, the nurses and doctors began looking for the cause of this "relapse".  They took blood and administered numerous tests.  The results?  Mononucleosis.  That's the bad news...of course, Cha' is concerned about her school, but she will get that figured out.  I just hate it that she is going to feel bad for a while, because let me tell you without any frosting or sugar-coating that mono isn't very fun (I had a horrible case of it my senior year).  Let me rephrase that slightly:  mono wasn't very fun for me.  But, as I said earlier, my body amplifies meds, so why not illnesses???  Anyways, there is good news (as there has been in every "bad" situation the Reeders have encountered lately).  We now know what is ailing Cha', which is, in many ways, a relief.  (She had a few swollen lymph nodes in her neck due to the trauma and stress of being sick, and it is fair to say that my family is just a little gun shy at the present moment).  Also, as I mentioned, I have already had mono, so she is not really contagious to me (trust me, I won't go drinking after her...I'm not idiotic).  Well, technically, there are various strains of mono, so she could have another strain that I could get, but it's not likely.  My doctor looked at my Epstein Barr immunity in my blood today (the virus that is mono), and I have full immunity!  Yay!!  This is such good news for my family, as we have been a split family for the past few weeks.  Dad and I have had to stay away from Mom and Cha', just so each sick "kid" can have someone to take care of them.  Explanation: when I was Neutropenic, I couldn't afford to get sick AT ALL, and I was extremely succeptible to any illness!  Had I contracted that stomach virus or even a common cold while my counts were so low, who knows how long I would have been in the hospital.  Anyways, it's been really hard to be apart, but we think that's behind us now. 
Well, that's what is going on at the Reeder household right now.  As I said waaaaaaaay earlier, the night after chemo, I am SO HYPER!  As a result, everyone reading this is tired and worn out from my new novel.  I'm the only one still awake right now; therefore, my chatty and hyper self only has the computer to talk to.  Thus, here is the long-winded and rather loopy account of a day in the life of Sky Reeder.

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