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| I wore my Star Trek shirt today. With pins in my knees and a port in my chest I feel like I am turning into a Borg after all. |
Round 2 of chemo went pretty smoothly. It's a long process to get through the whole thing. The first 1.5 hours is prep stuff - drawing blood to check my white blood cell counts and such and then meeting with the doc to check on how I'm feeling (and a lot of waiting around during all that). Then the infusion part is about 3.5 hours with 4 different bags of meds they pump in - bone strengthener, Benadryl, steroid, then Taxol. This time the Benadryl beat the steroid and I ended up sleeping in the chair for about 2 hours while the chemo dripped in. Not a bad way to do it. I started to have a reaction to the chemo again so they put it on a super slow drip again. That part of the infusion would typically take 1 hour but it took me 2. But that's fine. My babysitters were wonderfully flexible and I didn't throw up so life is good. I was still very exhausted when we got home and took another 2 hour nap. Now I'm feeling the buzzy steroid feeling in my chest and head again, but I'm sure it will pass by morning. No nausea or pain so far. Fingers crossed that those won't hit!
I also found out today that with this particular chemo I may not completely loose my hair. It will just thin out over the course of the next 3 months. With my thick hair I may just end up looking "normal" :o). But that also means that I get to shed everywhere like a cat. I might just shave it anyway if it gets too annoying.
I am so glad we get to see you with short hair! Yeah for keeping your hair. I am also glad you are doing this blog. I feel inspired by you the way Dr. T. inspires you. We all need someone to tell us that we can do THIS!
ReplyDeleteI have been to an orthopedic surgeon twice in the last few months for my knees and all he tells me is "I can't tell you you will run again. This is going to be a hard, long road." Not very encouraging. My physical therapist, however, is much more encouraging and optimistic. Perhaps the ortho doc could learn something from Dr. T. :)
Hooty! I love that you're wearing your Star Trek shirt! I'm so glad to hear that you haven't been nauseous(sp?). I'm also so dang glad that you have so much help. Tell those people that I love them! Miss you! I'm so glad you're keeping this blog.
ReplyDeleteI am totally diggin the Star Trek love here. Do we need to get you a faser (phaser?) to take with you too? Glad you got a little nap this time.
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