..and they don't even know what it means!!
HAHAHA! Here's a giggle for you to welcome March...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znFY7PYomEA
I saw my doc on Tuesday. After I told him about my various side effects, and the leg pains, he elected to NOT give me the belly implant shot!
I WAS SO FREAKING HAPPY!! I was dreading that nasty injection so much, and was really worried about what new pains would come...would I be able to dance at all?? Or walk??
Here's to the hope that the hormone blocking pill is enough to back up the chemo pill, and I won't have to get the injection ever again.
Started the chemo pill again on Wednesday, at the full dose. I had nausea the first two days, but am okay now.
I get VERY fatigued, but that's something I have learned how to power through, after years of treatment.
I've managed to stay well through a nasty flu season. I've heard that this year's flu shot was useless against the strain of flu that is going around.
People at work are starting to get sick now. At first, it was the flu outbreak at the dance studio, but everyone at work was still fine.
Now, not so much. Two people were out most of last week, and then the girl who sits right next to me was out Thursday and Friday.
I wiped her desk down with disinfecting wipes.... as well as all of the printers, copiers, door knobs.... etc.
I am taking every precaution I know of... Making chicken bone broth, and drinking it every day, taking extra vitamins, getting fresh air exercise whenever I possibly can, washing my hands until they're red and chapped, and I am highly conscious about not touching my face unless I go and wash my hands first.
Sleep is the difficult precaution.
This kitten has made sleeping through a good long night virtually impossible ever since he was released from the guest room at night.
I mentioned this do Dave when we brought Frankie home in December.... "I'm going to need my sleep, and it's not going to happen with a kitten in the house." This has turned out to be the case.
The shenanigans usually start around 4 am. Usually, it's fighting on the bed, or at the foot of the bed, with lots of growling, hissing, literal screaming (Annabel), and parkouring off of the bed.
By 4 am, Frank has had enough quiet time, and he's hungry and bored, so he picks fights with the big cats.
The automatic kibble feeders go off at 4:30, so that gets the cats' attention for a while...maybe 15 minutes...but then, it starts up again.
The workday alarm goes off at 6, so I have been missing out on approximately 2 hours of sleep every morning (I have been getting up at 6 on the weekends, too, simply because the cats will NOT let me sleep any later...while Dave snores until 9 or later).
This is obviously compounding the fatigue situation.
Last night, I took an ambien so that I could go to sleep easier, and then, at 4:15 this morning, I moved my pillow and body pillow to the futon in the guest room, and shut the door.
The cats don't usually wake Dave up (which is beyond my comprehension), and I am the one who ends up getting up with them...NOT TODAY.
I was worried that the cats would scratch at the door and yowl to be let in, but that didn't happen!
I told Dave last night that he HAS to take care of this for me.
Leaving him with the cats was effective...he got up and gave Frank his breakfast, and I slept right through it, all the way til 7:30!
So we have a method that will potentially work-- on non-work days, at least, HAHA!
Maybe if I can get a little extra sleep on the weekends, that will help.
We were supposed to take yesterday as a "down day" for me, so that I could rest after only getting about 3 hours sleep Friday night.... but it didn't happen.
The only thing I was supposed to have to do was go get a hair trim at 10....but we ended up doing errands until almost 2, then Dave dropped me off at home, and went to see his dad.
While he was gone, I did my chores, made another batch of bone broth with last week's chicken carcass and some pork bones, and finally laid down for a little while.
Then, last night, we went to our friend's birthday gathering up in Edmond.
I was so tired, we left at 8 and came home. I took a nice bath, and that ambien....and was in bed by about 9:30
Today, I have the second half of a workshop I signed up for, a couple more small errands to run, and when I get home from that, I will make a pot of chili and sit my butt down!
Next weekend is our dance studio showcase, so I will be performing next Saturday night. After that, I will get a little break from studio activities.
Happy March, happy St David's Day, and happy spring!
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