Monday 26 November 2012

Finally a moment to breath...

Round 1: Done.  I didn't have any reactions during my chemo injections so it was just a long uneventful day. The next couple of days I was tired and just feeling under the weather, definitely felt worse and much better. The third day at home was probably the worse day for me; here it is in a nutshell diarrhea, most god awful taste in my mouth(and very tender mouth), back aching, nausea which turned into actual vomiting (thankfully only once). The diarrhea and the mouth issues have been lingering but everything else has thankfully gone away.
As I thought I might be turning the corner and going to be feeling normal again, not 1 but both my children got fevers and were sick for the next 5 days. I won't elaborate because we have all been sick and you can all imagine how much fun 2 sick kids are. Ugh! Of course this little bout with what ever they had had to fall just as my blood counts were dropping yah(that is a very sarcastic yah). Thankfully I and they made it through, we are all healthy!
Now this Mama needs to get some sleep to make up for the last week of not getting any, and make some play dates for the kids!

Tuesday 13 November 2012

Hurry up...and wait.

So what's been going on lately?  Not much.  Just hanging out with my family, healing up so we can move on.  The second breast surgery went well and wasn't as uncomfortable as the first one, oddly enough, I'm thinking its because the IVAD (or power port) that was installed earlier in the week was so uncomfortable the boob surgery was nothing.  I was just had a black and blue chest for about a week then it turned a few different colours as the bruises healed. Now the only thing noticeable is the bump on my chest where the IVAD lives under my skin. I swear it has a bulls eye on it because my kids never miss it!  I've healed up nicely the doctor attributed it to my young skin and I've been cleared to move on.
Tomorrow I will receive my first round of chemo therapy. Part of me is terrified of the unknown (how my body will react, will I be sick, will I have an allergic reaction...) and the other part of me can't believe it is finally going to start ( it feels like I've been waiting forever, I do know it hasn't really been that long).  So for now I will have to wait and hope for the best because really what else can a person do with out driving oneself crazy? get some sleep.