Trust Me, It's Real!

Even my kids joke with me about my chemo brain! And today, I think my nurses and I were suffering from chemo brain as I sat here for Chemo #2, relaxing for a half an hour with a heated blanket over my lap and my legs up and reclining. After almost the half an hour that my chemo was supposed to be done running, a nurse came over and realized that my chemo had not been running the past thirty minutes! So, here I sit with my Starbucks, comfy at Chemo for the next half an hour. I had a good meeting with my doctor before Chemo. We went over various strategies for what might be next. More chemo, clinical trials, etc. I am feeling better about things; just have to wait now and see if this chemo is working. I will get another scan in a couple of months. And I will meet with my doctor again in a few weeks as I start Cycle 2. My cycles are three weeks on, one off. Unfortunately, my immunology testing is halted for now. The testing is for triple negative cancer, and mine is not quite triple negative even though it is so close that we are treating it as triple negative. So, my immunology results are pending. I have been having headaches for months, and I usually don’t get them, so I will have an MRI of my brain in the next couple weeks. So for now, I just need to sit back and relax and go through chemo for the next several weeks. Nothing to do but wait. Hurry up and wait, as my dad always says. Although, I guess I am not in a hurry; I am going to thoroughly enjoy the wait. And while I wait, I will have company. So excited that my mom and sister will be coming for two weeks on Tuesday! I am sure there will be plenty of laughter and tears! And, hopefully, it will be mostly tears from laughing so hard. I am bracing for Day 2 of the cycle tomorrow. Hope it is better than Day 2 of the first round?? And, one more thing … my head is starting to have a familiar burning/tingling/itchy feel, so I am wondering if I will be losing my hair this week. I hope I am wrong. 🙏🏻🤞Ironically, it has finally grown out to the length I want it and had been before the last time I lost my hair. Not earth shattering if I lose it again, but I really hope I don’t. That’s a whole other blog post! Stay tuned!