Couch Potato
Sorry that I didn’t post on Friday from Chemo. I just got Chemo, no immunotherapy, so my 1/2 hour hookup went by too quickly! I have been feeling pretty good the past two weeks. I have learned that I need to embrace my inner couch potato and drink lots of water for the first two days after Chemo, and that really seems to help. I am having some loss of taste and some neuropathy after Chemo this week, but it is not bad, and I can certainly live with that. My first scan is scheduled for Dec. 9th. I am getting anxious for it, but I am not fixated on it. I can see it going either way. I feel inside (my head) that this is working, and I will have good results. Yet, I am having a little pain in my chest lately, and my cough has come back, so I am hoping the results won’t be bad. I am having asthma, so my doctor prescribed an inhaler, and that has helped. He said a CT scan will show inflammation from the immunotherapy if that is what is going on. Who knows if it is just asthma, anxiety or something related to cancer?? My mom will be here when I get my scan and get the results, so that will be nice. Really like just going to Chemo — not ready to have to make decisions again if this regimen is not working. But whatever happens, happens, and I will deal with it. Just trying to keep my eyes on God and not my symptoms and whatever is happening in my body. Still expecting that miracle. My inlaws arrive tonight for Thanksgiving, and then I will have a week before two of my high school and college friends will come for the weekend. Really looking forward to that! In the meantime, I will try to stay put on the couch for the rest of the day, even though I want to be helping my sister and my husband clean — did I say that?! — in preparation for my inlaws. I am learning to love a day on the couch. I have turned the couch into my little office, and my sister has become my secretary! She knows my household schedule better than I do! Thank God, since Chemo brain has definitely set in again! Happy Thanksgiving to everyone, and I will write again Friday from the Chemo Cafe!