This past week was rough symptom-wise. Last Sunday, I was hit with fatigue so bad I felt like sludge for the next few days and had trouble getting off the couch. Acupuncture helped a bit. I also had a few episodes of strong nausea, and of course the weird taste/dry mouth persists. I asked if this is any indication of how the next several treatments will go. Sometimes one treatment can be better or worse than another, and fatigue is likely to continue.

One of my blood labs came back quickly this morning, but we had to wait longer for the thyroid one; I think we waited 2-2.5 hours total. When I was brought back for treatment, my nurse Laura gave me some good news: No steroid! That means hopefully I will sleep tonight! And that meant just half an hour for Keytruda and an hour for Taxol, so at least treatment was faster than normal.

For some reason, the mittens and booties were especially hard to wear today – they were SO DAMN COLD! I had to keep taking them off to give myself a break!

I got a call from the surgeon’s office this week to schedule my mammogram and ultrasound and pre-surgical visit with Dr. McAuliffe. Even though the scans aren’t until the end of February and the visit a week later, they’re now on the calendar!

Here’s hoping this week is more of an “up” week!