So 3 weeks ago I received my last treatment that involved chemotherapy! I will still need to come and hang out in the daycare unit every 3 weeks (which is what I'm currently doing) until roughly the end of November but there is no more chemo to be had. So that means no more yucky side effects, my hair can start to grow back, my taste buds can return to normal and no more nausea or steroids to combat side effects (which has its own side effects)!
Treatment 5 (6 weeks ago) was a difficult one for me; I was fighting hard or my body rather was battling hard not to get sick for almost the whole 3 weeks prior to my last treatment. Although I will note my difficult is still a cake walk in comparison to what some people go through. So I was prepared for the last treatment to be worse, thankfully it only took about 5 days to bounce back from it. The 5 days did suck but they are done, over with and I survived so what ever! I am done!
What now? Continue with treatment and gear up for radiation, radiation will start on the 2nd of April and be every week day until the 1st of May. Also time to get this body back in shape and cleaned out! I think I may be on some sort of diet or cleanse for a long time, my diet has become quite bad the last few months and it will take some time to get back to healthy.
Wednesday 20 March 2013
Wednesday 6 February 2013
I Love You! & Thank-you, Thank-you, Thank-you
I'm a lucky girl, actually a very lucky girl and I'm so grateful for the amazing people I have in my life!
Since my ordeal with cancer started I have been dump founded many times by the generosity of family, friends, acquaintances and virtual strangers. You all help to restore my faith in human kind. I really don't know what I can say or do to express how truly grateful I am to them all, because saying thank you just doesn't seem like enough. People have made me and my family meals (which we turn to often when I'm not feeling my best), bought me gifts and donated money to help pay for expenses. I'm speechless! So since I've found nothing else.....
Thank-you, Thank-you, Thank-you!!!
And a very special thank you to my Shoppers family who most recently left me in tears!
Oh my family, I Love you! I love you so much! Thank-you, Thank-you, Thank-you! I need to say this to you all everyday, you are nothing but amazing to me! You mean the world to me and I couldn't thank you enough for all that you have & will do for me, so if I forget ever to say it, Thank-you! I'm very grateful for each of you from the young to the old, and lucky to have you all each and everyday.
I love you and thank-you each and everyone of you.
Since my ordeal with cancer started I have been dump founded many times by the generosity of family, friends, acquaintances and virtual strangers. You all help to restore my faith in human kind. I really don't know what I can say or do to express how truly grateful I am to them all, because saying thank you just doesn't seem like enough. People have made me and my family meals (which we turn to often when I'm not feeling my best), bought me gifts and donated money to help pay for expenses. I'm speechless! So since I've found nothing else.....
Thank-you, Thank-you, Thank-you!!!
And a very special thank you to my Shoppers family who most recently left me in tears!
Oh my family, I Love you! I love you so much! Thank-you, Thank-you, Thank-you! I need to say this to you all everyday, you are nothing but amazing to me! You mean the world to me and I couldn't thank you enough for all that you have & will do for me, so if I forget ever to say it, Thank-you! I'm very grateful for each of you from the young to the old, and lucky to have you all each and everyday.
I love you and thank-you each and everyone of you.
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.
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.
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