Countdown!!!

Only three left now! I truly can't believe it. I know it's not ALL done when chemo is over, but it's so much closer.

I haven’t been feeling especially great the past couple of days. I have a cold and I’m so dried out I get a bloody nose a couple times a day. That’s really special! Also, because the Taxol is so drying it allows your nails to lift a little bit sometimes and I got a little infection in one of them. It’s small, not even worthy of antibiotics so I figure it will be all better very soon. The numbness in my feet (still none in my fingers) got much worse last week, very painful, I was so surprised because it took so many weeks to kick in, but chemo is cumulative so I shouldn’t have been all that surprised. I’m still having some numbness but it seems to be getting better now that I’m taking the correct amount of glutamine. It really helps to read the doctor’s directions! She wrote 10g three times a day and I read once a day…a difference of 20g. No wonder it’s working now! The taste of food and water is getting better too. I still have the strange taste in my mouth after chemo, but it’s lasting less time each session which is great.

I saw friends today at chemo, which is always great. It puts me in a much better mood. Sometimes I think we put on a “show” for each other because we want the other to know we’re doing ok, but sometimes we just tell it like it is…like this is ridiculous and we’d rather be somewhere else. We smile and we laugh AND we vent and cry, all of the things we need to do to get through this. None of us asked to be here, this is not the “life lesson” we signed up for, but we’re here and for the most part I think we’re all making the best of this. Most everyone I’ve met is a fighter and we all know this is not a walk in the park, it’s a marathon that we didn’t train for but we’re all managing in our own special way to make it through.

I am very grateful for each of these new women I’ve met, but mostly I’m grateful that Mom goes with me each and every week. It means the world to me to have her there supporting me. We had Jen, my nurse, take our picture today. It’s cute so I’m sharing it. Maybe my hair will be as long as hers one of these days!!!



I hope everyone is doing well.

Peace
~K