Wednesday 16 January 2013

I'm a BAD Blogger...ugh

I know, I know, I am a bad blogger! I have not updated this blog in over a month but in my defence it was a busy month. There was Christmas which was fabulous! It was the 1st time my father was able to be home for Christmas in 12 years, my baby's 1st Christmas and the 1st time my older child got that SANTA was coming! I had my family & friends, I felt good, I couldn't have asked for more really (other than the obvious no cancer).
Had to head in for my 3rd treatment right after Christmas so there were no celebrations to bring in the New Year, I went to bed in 2012 and awoke in 2013. So I guess I owe a lot of people a big Happy New Year!
So after today I will have 2 more chemo treatments or we could say I'm 2/3 done. Either way it's exciting, as long as the next 2 go off with out any hitches I will be done chemo by the end of February, woohoo! Treatments will still be going on until November 2013 but my hair should start to grow again and hopefully my food will start to taste normal again (no funky metallic taste, fingers crossed). After my 1st treatment they dialled back my chemo and I haven't suffered from any real unpleasant side affects since (diarrhea, nausea/vomiting, mouth sores etc..), biggest complaint is my energy is just not there sometimes.  I've had a few periods of insomnia but they haven't lasted for too long, so all-in-all I'm just rocking through chemo. A little side bar on rocking through chemo, my blood work came back before my 3rd treatment saying my magnesium was a little low so I had to have a magnesium drip before my treatment, my blood work this time said it was normal again but I'm starting to become slightly anemic.  These are both side effects of the chemo drugs, my oncologist assures me they are nothing to concern myself with they just need to watch that they don't become something more significant.
I promise I'll try and be a better blogger this year. It is not a resolution because New Years resolutions never pan-out, I'm just putting that out there.