Almost June

I can't believe tomorrow is June first.

In many ways, the past few months since my diagnosis have dragged on at a snail's pace.  The anxiety, the struggle, the uncertainty, the abject terror.....

But, when I look at the calendar, it also seems to have flown by in an eyeblink.  That may be because, with every step, I have worked THROUGH the anxiety, the struggle, the anxiety, and the abject terror, and managed to beat them back with my warrior attitide.

This past week has been pretty good.

The body pain I was experiencing last weekend was finally mostly gone by Tuesday morning.  The nurse called me to follow up, and I told her how it had started a couple of hours after the on-body injection device had administered the immune booster med.

She said she would talk to the doctor, and that we would probably not use that the next time, and instead, give me the weekend in between treatment and manual injection of the same medication, so that we can see which causes the reaction, IF it happens again at all.

That does mean that I will have to miss a little work to go back to the clinic on Monday, but it will be worth it if we can come up with a solution.

I am pleased that my comfort is of utmost importance to my care team.  They want me to thrive and go on living my life through this.

My appetite has returned to normal, my peristaltic process has returned to normal, and the only ongoing thing I am feeling is that weird ache in my trachea when I take a really deep breath, or change body position.

I have started my morning work outs again, and have been taking walks at break time when the weather has permitted.

My scalp is still covered with hair, and I am still having to shave my legs and underarms (that brings a very specific set of new challenges!).

However, I can count the number of eyelashes I have left, my eyebrows are so thin that I need to draw them on, and my nasal hairs have become so sparse that my nose drips at the most inopportune moments.

Fortunately, for all but the embarrassing drippy nose, there is a make up technique to make these things less noticeable.

I do get tired a bit more easily, but it's nothing like it could be.

Tomorrow marks 10 days since treatment, and I think the biggest triumph is that I never got chemo mouth!  Food still tastes normal.  YAY!

The sun is supposed to come out today, but it hasn't yet.  I hope it does.  I'd like to go out and make some natural vitamin D!

I have to admit, though, I am VERY happy that it's almost June, and it hasn't been 100 degrees yet!