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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For some reason, the mittens and booties were especially hard to wear today \u2013 they were SO DAMN COLD! I had to keep taking them off to give myself a break!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I got a call from the surgeon\u2019s office this week to schedule my mammogram and ultrasound and pre-surgical visit with Dr. McAuliffe. Even though the scans aren\u2019t until the end of February and the visit a week later, they\u2019re now on the calendar!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here\u2019s hoping this week is more of an \u201cup\u201d week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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