I received some good news this morning. After another x-ray, it shows that my port placement is fine where it is. That means no procedure to fix next week. Sweet! And the blood clots are now gone thanks to the blood thinners. All positive news!
Have you ever heard of the term ‘chemo brain’? It refers to the brain fog that chemo causes. I thought I’d share a funny example. Last week when I was in the hospital I’d called Nick to share the good news that my white blood cells were increasing back to where they should be. So I told him, “guess what, I’m no longer necrophiliac!” He chuckles 🤭 and asked if that was the word I meant. Oh my, no, I meant neutropenic. Ha! Very different terms.
Life if too short not to laugh at your own mistakes!
Bye Bye Red Devil AC!
July 31, 2023
I feel like crap but I’m still very happy, why!? This morning was my last AC/ Red Devil chemotherapy session! I will not miss the last 8 weeks. Not even a little.
I heal from AC and start taxol chemo treatments Aug 17. They will be every week for 12 weeks. If all goes smoothly with no delays I’ll “ring the bell” on Nov 2. That feels way too long from now but I’ve learned to focus more short term to kept everything more manageable in my mind. I will soon finish what is likely the hardest part of this whole cancer journey but realistically this week will be the hardest of all. The AC builds up and I was feeling the crap before I felt the doctors but I can do anything for a week. We can all do hard things when we need to. It just so happens that Wednesday is my 43rd birthday 🥳 but it will likely be spent in bed. It’s all ok, I’ll celebrate DOUBLE time next year. 😉
Random fun fact: There is a drug called nulasta that is really cool. This medicine attaches to your stomach and 26 hrs after chemo it automatically injects a medicine that helps your bone marrow to jump start white blood cell production. Before it existed patients had to go back to the office to get a shot. How much would that suck? No fun. A neat technology! Today I learned that it’s not cheap. Apparently it’s $16k a shot. Crazy but still really cool; I bet my insurance is not a fan of me about now. Sometimes insurance is so confusing, They approved this 100% without question but declined a $10 crème for my port that makes injections less painful.
My mini celebration on completing AC is wearing pjs in the middle of the day with needless bling added. 🦄 Then add chilling on the deck. God is good, all the time.
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