It was a long week. My main enemies seem to be fatigue and the taste bud changes/dry mouth/yucky mouth taste.
My parents came in yesterday to take me to chemo today. I got the same spot and nurse as last week, so it went just as smoothly. I told Laura the nurse that she has the magic touch!
She took more blood from me than usual for the heptatologist. Those results haven’t come in yet.
Soon after I got home, I got a call from St. Clair Hospital Radiation & Oncology to schedule my consult. She asked if I wanted it before or after my surgery. I’d rather do it before, because I’ll be feeling better and would like to also start the process. So my appointment is March 14.
After lunch, I took a four hour nap! But it wasn’t a good nap, and no naps make me feel rested because I’m always fatigued to my bones.
This will be a slow week, with a huge reward at the end of it! Then I figure it’ll take my body at least two weeks to detox/notice any changes.
Still! These long six months are coming to an end!
6 responses to “One More to Go!”
Yay! This part is coming to an end!
Woo Hoo! I love the number ONE (zero is even better-has a ring to it). Then part ONE will be DONE, and hopefully your taste buds will return. Happy to hear your parents are there with you too. Hugs from me to all of you❣️💗💗💗
Lisa you are certainly one tired trooper. You’re on the finish line and you feel absolutely whipped and that was always to be expected. Four hour naps are my kind of a nap but I can only imagine how weary you are of feeling weary. Somewhere down this road you’ll realize that as truly awful this entire experience was, you made it. You choose your path and never deviated. The next part of this journey is just around the corner and you’ll go into it with the same determination as you had with the first portion of your treatment. One foot in front of the other. Give yourself a big pat on the back!
Heather
“One Step at a Time” by Lillian E. Curtis (This poem reminds me of difficult journeys and how success may depend on how we perceive the journey).
“If a long and toilsome ladder
You were trying to climb,
You would not reach the top at once
But by one step at a time.
Doubtless all of you are trying
Different ladders to climb,
But be sure you only take
One step at a time.
One step and take it surely
Not like a conceited fop,
And soon you’ll find, my friend
That you have reached the top.”
Yay for one more!! You got this Lis! XO
Yes! The 6 months are coming to an end and it looks like you ‘ll make it to the other side!!!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽