Archive | May 2016

Phase 1 down…onto Phase 2!!!!

May31

Chemo is OVAH!

That’s really all.  I don’t have a whole lot of other information to report.  The tumor has pulled away from the chest wall like it was supposed to and I have a consult with the Surgeon next week to talk about when and what we are going to do.  Then the next week I’m having an MRI done to see what is going on.

I can’t tell you how much of a relief it is to know that I only have like 2 more weeks of the poison flowing through my veins….and more importantly my hair will finally start to grow back in about 2-3 weeks!  VERY EXCITED.

Once I know more I’ll of course report it.

I was thinking though…..This reminds me a lot of Basic Training.  They tear you down and build you back up.  In a lot of ways this is the same thing.  This has tore me down to my core physically and emotionally and will then be responsible for rebuilding myself to be a better person for having gone though all this.  So I guess I better decide what I want to do with this blank slate once I have it.

**UPDATE – They changed my Pre-op to the 16th so that the Surgeon can read the MRI before we meet (what a concept).  So I won’t know anything until the 16th now….OH THE WAITING!  I mean I understand they can’t really do anything until after a few weeks after chemo treatment because it messes with things and I’m not going to be feeling better by then anyway…so it’s all for the best.  But I’m just very anxious to move on to this next phase!!!! Like I would do the surgery tomorrow if they would let me!

No news is good news

May10

I haven’t written in a while.  Nothing really to report.  The treatment is going okay. Because my white blood count was good they didn’t give me the Neulasta shot this last time.  So we’ll see how that works.  The only real side effect besides being tired all the time and the needles and pins from my knees down.  I’ve been doing pretty good with the nausea for the most part as long as I keep on top of my meds.  I’ve been overly emotional the last few weeks. You would think that with the whole anti-hormone thing I would be emotionless or something.  HA!  They did put me on an anti depressant (lots of anti stuff going on).  The only thing I can think of is so it’s set up and ready to go for the impending surgery.  I have a feeling that’s going to be kinda hard.  All I know about that so far is I have 2 more chemo treatments then we are going to take some pictures to see what is going on. Then if everything looks good we will talk more about the surgery.  I’ve been thinking about it.  Hard to say how I really am going to react.  I could be totally fine with it or I’ll totally lose it.  It’ll be interesting that’s for sure.

Still don’t have a full kitchen. I have cabinets.  I have counter tops.  I have a dishwasher and a sink.  Waiting on the oven and the refrigerator still.  This should happen on Thursday of this week.  Then we just have to wait for all the trim for the cabinets and it will be done.

Spent part of mothers day in the ER.  Pete was fixing part of the house (oh we are getting gutters on Thursday!) and he was cutting a piece of wood that flung off the table saw into his gut.  He didn’t think much of it at first and then it started to swell up.  So to be safe we went to the ER.  They did an ultrasound just to make sure there was no damage.  He’s good.  Bruised up a bit but he’s fine.