One Week Later

I had my one-week-after-treatment appointment today and it went great. My bloodwork looks good and my white blood count is high (a good thing), which explains the horrible pain from the shot. She said I'm doing really well!! The bone pain is minimal today...haven't even taken a Vicodin but the pain from m port procedure will probably kick in shortly.

Also had my port put in.  Not as bad a I thought it was going to be. I was totally numbed and didn't feel a thing. Still kinda scary cuz I was awake but the doctor was hilarious and made me feel at ease, along with the Ativan.  I'm pretty doped up right now.

Also, yesterday had a bit of tongue bs, which happens often with chemo. It's temporary but it felt like I burned my tongue. It hurt to eat. The nutritionist gave me a rinse to take (baking soda, salt and water) and it does help. Today its better though. I can eat and I'm not in pain. My tongue still feels a bit numb though.

Lots of changes and they are alll scary/interesting, but I am handling them

Hopefully the worst is over, aside from losing my hair. If this is how its going to be every 3 weeks, it's not so bad

First Day of Side Effects

Looks like I spoke too soon about feeling okay.

Yesterday, I was blessed with horrible bone and muscle pain, a side effect of the bone marrow shot I have to get...not even a side effect of the chemo!!!

It feels like a mack truck hit me. It hurts to breathe and swallow. I am taking Claritin to help with the pain, but it doesn't seem to be doing much good so I'm on to my new bff, Vicodin, which the doctor said was fine to take. It does help a ton but it's a temporary fix and it knocks me out.

I was hoping all my updates would be filled with rainbows and unicorns, but not this time. The good thing is it doesn't last forever. I should be feeling better soon!

Some other good news is I started to feel a tad nauseous last night and the second I took my anti-nausea meds, it went away, so at least they work!!

John has been waiting on me hand and foot and has been so patient and amazing

I did finish Brandi Glanville's book, and have started a vision board for all the things I want to do once I  am up and running again, but mostly, I've been laying in bed praying for the pain to go away.

Day 3

It's day 3 and I don't want to jinx it, but I'm feeling good. I haven't used my anti-nausea meds yet. The worst I've felt is ridiculously tired and a bit of indigestion and acid reflux, but they said that could be from the steroids. I got a shot yesterday to boost my bone marrow and it can make you realllly achy but so far nothing. Now, it's not to say it still can't happen. The next few days are more crucial in terms of pain and nausea, but so far so good. The only real pain is the healing from the surgery I had for the port that didn't end up going in. I have stitches and a few bruises. I also look like a heroin addict from all the times they've poked my arms-

The doc said it takes 16-18 days for hair to start falling out so I'm assuming around March 8, I'll get the clippers out and do up a nice Miley Cyrus. I'm actually enjoying my short hair right now. It's soo easy and it doesn't make me look as much like a boy as I thought it would.

What's funny is I had a lil bump behind my ear. Totally normal and common and the doctor checked it out and said it was nothing, but since Thursday, it has almost totally gone down so the poison is at least working on something :)

I won't update you guys daily but I thought the first few days would be fascinating for you guys to hear about.

I am open to any questions you may have too, no matter how silly you may think they are.

Now, if you'd pardon me, I need to get back to my very insightful book, Brandi Glanville's "Drinking and Tweeting"

The Long and Short of It

Hi pals. I start chemo on Thurs and have surgery for my port tomorrow morning. I am nervous but ready. I have had enough time to take it in and accept it. I actually cut my hair into a pretty short bob about an hour ago. I was afraid it would look silly but I gotta say, I actually like it. I've attached a photo. Not a great picture of me but you can kinda see the cut. It wont matter because in a few weeks it will be gone but I feel better knowing when it grows back, I won't look like a fool. I'll send another update this week after all the bs is done!