Wednesday, September 22, 2010

I'm tired, my face is so dry it's driving me crazy, I don't feel like eating and I have blisters all over.


THIS IS NO FUN!

Monday, Spetember 13, 2010

This is no fun! Had second of new treatments on Wednesday. Treatment itself was uneventful although it took two tries to get in the IV. My arm looks like someone beat me. My body is trying to adjust to this new chemo routine but just like the first of the last treatments my skin it terribly dry, my legs are swelling and my face is breaking out. I have no appetite at all and nothing even looks tempting to eat. I'm hoping like the last 17 weeks once I get a few treatments down my body will start to adjust to them. For now, I'm tired and just want to get through the days and go home and sleep.

Sorry I can't be more entertaining - it's a bad day! Hopefully next week will be better.

Friday, September 3, 2010

Although I was confident the Brain MRI would not show much I confess I was still a little nervous. My doctor called me Tuesday afternoon to tell me that it showed that the lesion was almost non-existent -gone!!! What a relief!!! My gut told me that since after radiation is showed shrinking and all the chemo it had to be good news but I've been around long enough to know as soon as you get you guard down it hits you right between the eyes!

Started 12 weeks of the new chemo on Wednesday. A double dose of Abraxine (Taxol 2nd generation) and Hercepton. Got a great nurse once again and the IV was in right away. These chemo's do not require pre-meds so no Benedryl or Dexadura. No problem during the infusion or that evening. However, Thursday was a different story. My usual full of energy, get things done Thursday took a nose dive...... It was a rough day to get through. Tired (even took a nap at lunch), achy and just didn't feel right. I ended up calling it a day and going home around 3:30. Once home I sat on the sofa and just tried to relax. My two baby girls KiKi and Zoey sensing mom wasn't feeling good cuddled up to me and took a nap. I had no appetite and ended up eating a juice bar for dinner. By 8:00 I sensed something just wasn't right. Turned out I had a 101.2 fever by then. Since it was a side effect of the chemo I didn't panic and just kept hydrating. By 9:00 I decided to just sleep it off and went to bed. Woke up this morning with no fever but still a little "off". As the day has gone by its gotten better so I'm ready for the weekend! I expect it will take a few weeks for my body to adjust to this new chemo and then everything will be back to normal. I'm hoping the next 11 weeks will be uneventful.

Hope you all have a great holiday weekend.