Saturday, January 3, 2015

Two infusions and many pills to go...

I'm so close to the end of this thing, I can hardly stand it! I had my sixth infusion yesterday (1/2/2015) I only have the 15th and 29th to go... I also had the pill form that I take Monday through Friday twice a day. I think those pis give me a harder time than the infusion does. As most of you know I lost all the hair on my head sans eyebrows. The hair on my legs is falling out too. That's actually kinda funny. I'm seeing scars on my legs that I have know idea where they came from. (Yes, the hair on my legs was that thick!)

I've also discovered that the hair on my head does try to grow back a little.
Here's what it looks like if I let it go...

They've helped me get some of my meds figured out. I would often have a hard time getting to sleep after chemo, but they've given me so anti-nausea meds that happen to have a side effect of knocking you out. Perfect!

Doc still acts as if I'm the poster child of everything going correctly. Of course, I'm blessed for that.  So far, the game plan going forward is still the same. I need some recovery time from all this before I can have another surgery. That's when the colon tumor comes out and a bunch of lymph nodes. That leads me to something curious... I've seen most of my scans, and I've asked the doc about this, but my lymph node do not show any cancer. Stage four Cancer travels through your lymph nodes... So why do my show clean? I have no answer for that and neither does my doc. All he says is "don't look a gift horse in the mouth!). I tend to agree!

So anyway lots of things still up in the air. I don't know when surgery is going to happen, but I look forward to this particular chapter closing in my life! The next one has got to be better!