Randam Adam

Im sorry I havent updated in a few weeks, ive been making a list of all the things that I wanted to write about: Movie Rewviews, my last Chemotherapy and how Ive been feeling, losing my hair.

  Ive just been really tired and out of it, its been hard to focus to write things, i havent been sleeping and Ive been really busy with doctors appointments and stuff.  I had a PET Scan yesterday and also a CAT scan will go over the results Thursday when I see my oncologists.   Ill try to also get around to getting all of my past updates posted soon as well, but there is a more pressing matter.

  My 7 week old nephew Jacob was born with some heart problems and the doctors said that they would have to watch him closely, well his breathing hasnt been right and then Sunday I guess he had some blood in his nose. Monday my sister Melissa took him to the doctors and they sent her to the ER and his looks were discolored. They decided to admit him into  the hospital Monday night and said that they had to do an angioplasty yesterday to try to get his heart valves to open up.  Well during this procedure his heartstopped and then they were talking about open heart surgery or even a heart transplant.   There were complications during the surgery and his heart stopped beating.  They had him on life support but he passed away last night around 10pm.

   Please pray for my sister Melissa and her husband Robbie and my entire family during this time. I  think that we are all still in shock but this is gonna be a long hard road.   Thank you all so much for your prayers and I will try to keep updates on here and my facebook as much  as I can.

                                      GOD Bless,
                                                         ADP

EVERYBODY'S FINE 

 Everybody,s Fine Stars Robert Di Nero as the father that is not well connected with his kids after his wife passes away. This film starts off with Roberts character getting his home and yards ready for all of his kids to come down for a nice visit. One by one they all cancel without any explanation and against his doctors orders he decides to go surprise all of hem at their homes across the country one by one. 



His children all are hiding things from him and lying to him about their personal and professional lives to make sure hes proud of them. But as the movie progresses and they tell him lie after lie he starts to realize things aren't what they seem with them.

This film is a bit complicated. When I first saw the trailer for this film online a few weeks ago you the impression that this is a comedy, and although there are many comedic parts in this film that make you laugh out loud, overall I would say that this is a drama that deals with some pretty dark and sad themes a lot of the time. He has four children but from the get go you only see three which is a giveaway that somethings wrong.  I was moved at times and generally felt what he was feeling and believed his genuine sadness at times.  I would recommend this film, its got some great actors and some great scenery. A general warning there is some swearing in this film and one "F" word which really seemed out of place and quite unnecessary in my opinion.   I wasn't very shocked or surprised at most of the twist and turns and had the movie basically figured out ten minutes in, but still generally enjoyed it.

   So if any of this sounds appealing to you and you enjoy these actors and their work then go see this film!

 OK, well I just wanted to do a quick update. Ive been out all day at doctors appointments and doing errands, just got home and am now getting ready to go back out again. So this will be short and sweet!

  I saw my oncologist today and he looked over all of my lab work from the past few weeks and we talked about my symptoms and what Ive been feeling. He said that generally I am doing very well.  He is happy at how my body is reacting to the chemotherapy so far.  I told him my concerns and that I am preparing mentally for the worst and hoping for the best.

  Surprisingly he told me not to worry, that I should just live my life, go about business normally and have as much fun as I can because there will be times in the near future where my blood counts will drop and my immune system will be very vulnerable and I cant go out into public much then.   I was shocked at how much less he was concerned about certain things and he told me that sometimes worrying about the cancer and chemo and side effects can bring them on faster.  So don't stress myself out cause that could be bad for my health.

   I also talked to him about my neck and he examined me and said that it looks just to be damage and scar tissue and the tendon healing from the surgical implant of the portacath. So to take it easy and don't try to work it out myself to just let it heal on its own. Another fun little thing is that they gave me the H1N1 flu vaccine cause they say that when my immune system drops I wouldn't be able to fight it off so its just a precaution. So thats cool, i wasn't even thinking about it!

  Sorry I haven't been updating as much, been really tired and crazily busy all of a sudden. My next Chemotherapy injection is next Weds (the day before Thanksgiving) But I promise to keep updating as things change and I learn anything new!

   I will be posting four... yes FOUR new movie Reviews by tomorrow afternoon! So check back to see what I thought about: The Blind Side, Everybody's Fine, The Fourth Kind & ... The Twilight Saga: NEW MOON!

 Thanks all for reading and I will be talking to you soon!!

                       GOD Bless,
                                      ADP

P.S. Anytime you see the font a different color or underlined, its because its a link. I put up links to the movies I already saw and am gonna see tonight, then review tomorrow. You can click on the links in case you dont have a clue what movies I'm talking about!

  For the last week or so the main side effects that I have been feeling is: Tiredness, soreness, getting hot and feeling flustered very easily, insomnia, dehydration easily, and just a general feeling of weakness and aches.   I haven't had the most energy, but still no major sickness yet.  As you cans see from the pictures I have been having drawn. I have to go twice a week for them to test my count levels and see where im at and how my immune system is.  THIS is very important and determines where I can go and what I can do.

Sorry I havent updated in awhile. Been really tired and not sleeping. Plus my computers been down. Will write an update tomm from the past week plus movie reviews

OK, So it is day three after Chemotherapy and I wanted to do just a basic post about what happened and all that I felt and can remember.

Sorry its taken a few days to get this up, I have really been resting and just went out last night for the first time.

  So I arrived at the hospital around 8:40am and I was put into my own room. I will not always have this, just depends on how busy they are, they do have main rooms but like to let you be by yourself your first time so you can have more personal interaction with the nurses and doctors and can ask questions and they keep a closer eye on you.  It was a nice little room with a bathroom that I shared with the patient next door.

  So I was extremely nervous and my blood pressure showed it when they first took it.   But it went back to normal after I relaxed a bit.  Well my dad dropped me off and it was a lot of waiting at first. Then nurses and doctors came in to talk to me and started explaining what they were gonna do. The first thing that was done was that they sterilized my entire chest and the area around when the portacath is at. After that the lovely needle went into my chest.  Seeing as my incisions and the area around it isn't even healed yet this was pretty painful ( I'm told after it heals fully that the area basically becomes numb).  They started me off on a water (or saline drip) that basically starts flushed thru the tubes and make sure everything is going where its supposed to and that all is well inside.

The type of chemotherapy Im on is called "R CHOP" so there are four types of medicines they give me there that day and the fifth part is a pill that I take at home twice a day.

  They say that the first time getting chemo takes a lot longer cause they have to take every medicine super slow at first to make sure that you dont have any major allergic reactions.  So they say that a typical chemo session can be between four to five hours,  I was there for a little over nine. So they said my body did extremely well and had no major reactions.  So nexttime hopefully it will be shorter.

  I would say that the majority of the time I didnt feel anything beside the liquid moving through me, but the third medicine is called a "Direct IV Push" where instead of an IV Drip they have these four needles and they basically squeeze them really quickly into me.  hat one hurt a little bit, kind of a warm burning sensation inside my heart spreading out into my extremities.  It went away after a few minutes though.

My Nurse Gloria.
She was awesome, she checked on me every few minutes to make sure I was ok, and that my body was reacting harshly to the chemo.


So the main things I felt while I was there would be tiredness, soreness and Im not sure if it was my body or the room but I was hot alot of the time.  Besides that it was just alot of lying around. I had my Gameboy DS, newspapers, my web enabeled cell phone, magazines and even a pad and paper.  The only thing I really did was watch some tv and be online and text, I was pretty restless and tired, but its really hard to sleep when there are lights on and its daytime and someone comes in every few minutes to check your vitals and see how you are.
So it was a long day, but I survived, I learned a few things I can do next time, like bring ligt snacks and to wear shorts and maybe a tank top.  I met alot of great and kind nurses there and even some volunteers that were awesome as well.  I am truly blessed thst GOD  helped me find UCI and Doctor Sender and that I feel like I am getting some great care.


   So far the main effects that I am feeling would be: tiredness, a bit of soreness, a little queasy and just a feeling like I am borderline getting the flu.  Ive also had a little bit of a headache for the past few days, but just resting and drinking tons of water.  I'm also talking to people who have gone thru this recently and trying to learn as much as I can about the process and the effects of the chemo and side effects of all of the medicines.

   So please continue to pray, I'm hoping that I don't get really sick, but they say that most part feeling it in the week after the injections.  So time will tell.  If you have any questions or suggestions or just anything at all please leave a comment. I will try to be on every few days to update you guys and keep you up to date!

                                                       GOD Bless,
                                                                         ADP

Sorry Everybody,

   Its been a few days since I had my chemo and I have been just staying down.   So everyone wants to know how I feel and the most basic answer is that I really dont know yet.   I have had a really bad cold for the past few weeks and am still fighting to finally rid myself of that, but I'll just tell ou how I feel at this moment.

   This is gona be a quick summary because I am in the process of getting ready to go out for the first time since chemo to the movies with my parents and my longtime friend Dawnn. We are going to the Irvine Spectrum to see "A Christmas Carol" in IMAX 3D (review to follow).

   SO basically a summary is that I am tired, and have what I would normally associate with flu-like symptoms (weakness, overall body soreness, feeling warm or feverish, a tiny headache that has been ing for two days and abit of an upset stomach).  So none of the major side effects yet, im told that they typically are seen in the first seven to ten days so i still have awhile til im there. So we will just have to wait and see.

  Thanks for all of your thoughts, prayers, texts, facebook messages , tweets and just general well wishes.

  I know its totally backwards, but tommorrow I will write a full length post about the my 9 hour day getting chemo and include pictures and all of that fun jazz. I just wanna have time to include as much information as I can.

   So once again thanks all for all of your love and I look forward to hearing from youin on way or another and I will try my best to do all that I can to stay healthy and keep you all informed!

                        GOD Bless,
                                        ADP

Sorry I haven't updated in awhile.  Well I had my 

surgical implantation of the portacath last Weds 

(Oct 28th) it went good. It was a bit more 

intense then i thought it would be.I knew that

they were gonna be cutting open my chest, but 

what I didn't know was that they were gonna be 

making incisions at the bottom of my neck and 

putting tubes down them.  So I was awake for the

surgery, the procedure itself wasn't that painful,

the afterward is!

It feels funny and so far 

its been pretty painful. 

It just hurts to move my 

neck chest or arm because 

they cut thru the muscle. 

I'm sure the thing that hasn't been 

helping is the fact that I started 

getting sick the night before the 

surgery and have had major head,

sinus and chest congestion.I

have been sneezing and coughing 

, which you can imagine 

doesn't feel the greatestto have your chest muscles

flexing when they just cut thru them!

So I really think that this darn cold and all of 

the coughing has seriously slowed down the rate 

at which the incisions are healing. They told me 

that I shouldonly be really sore for a few days

and here a week later I'm still in some major 

pain. But besides that I'm doing all right. I was

told I could take the top bandages off today 

cause they were falling off and they would be 

taking them off tomorrow anyways. So here is what 

I can see now.

They put some sort of glue

on the incision to help it

heal but the problem is that

they didn't wait for it to 

dry and now the sutures and 

part of the bandage are glued

to the incision. So this 

should be interesting and I 

really hope that they can take 

them off without ripping

open the incisions.

OK, so I  am starting chemotherapy tomorrow at

9am at UCI Hospital.  I went and gave      

at the lab this afternoon so they have all of

my starting       counts,and then I went and 

got two of the six medicines that I'll have to

take during each round of chemotherapy and 

I just found out today that there's is a co-pay 

for each one and now this is another bill that

I'm gonna have and I hope I can handle it on

top of everything else that I have right now.

So tomorrows chemo will be a bit longer then

the rest because its my first time and they 

have to take       and give me a lot of

different medicines orally and thru injections

before I start the actual chemo treatment.

They say I should expect to be there 6-8

hours possibly. So I just gotta bring reading 

materials, charge myphone and GAMEBOY DS and 

just be prepare to sit for awhile (now Im 

wishing I had a neck pillow and even one of

those butt doughnut pillow thingies).  Once

again my chemo is called "R-Chop" and I will 

hopefully do an update tomorrow to let you all

know how it went. I'm sure it wont be as long

as this one I promise.  Once again thank you

for all of your thoughts and prayers and I love 

you all!

GOD Bless, 

               ADP