January 14, 2013

"Long time, no talk!"

It has been a while since I have written. I have a good excuse! I didn't want to be negative, I didn't feel good and I was out of town for a while enjoying family for Christmas! I guess that is more than one excuse.

Christmas was wonderful. We got to spend a week in Tulsa with our families. The only not wonderful part was that I got shingles. I do not mean the roof kind either! The nerve pain has calmed down and I thought I was in the clear, but now an intense itching has started in on my left side. Will this ever be done? Go away already!

I had chemo number five the week after Christmas. That puts me at the halfway mark for chemo. I guess that is good, but I am having a hard time seeing the glass half full. I guess this treatment was my "freak out" chemo. It knocked me down so hard that I don't think I can do it again! As if anyone is asking if I want too or not! I felt better about not being so strong about it after talking to someone I met when I was first diagnosed. She and I are about the same age and going through this about the same time. She said she "freaked out" after the third a/c chemo treatment. I waited until my fifth to have a melt down, so I guess I'm not alone! I have one more a/c treatment (dreading it!) and then I switch to taxol. I am really hoping that taxol is somehow an easier drug! A person can always hope!

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