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3 september 09 -- week 6.7 (that's 7th week since my LAST treatment!) visited with brother david & his family in new orleans for a week & a half in august, what a delite to spend lots of time with the kids! will be posting lots of fotos soon. it was HOT of course, & i went bareheaded except for sunhat outdoors during the day, very liberating! a sort of coming out for me, since i always wear a scarf or hat here. cousins belinda & joan from houston came over for a weekend, & they took cousin carolynsue (who lives in new orleans, just a block over from david & family) & me out to dinner at a wonderful restaurant, a meal to remember.
& i have now been back to work for 2 weeks. working mon, wednes, & friday afternoons, & so far, the tues & thurs days off i've wanted to do as little as possible at home. still the fatigue. trying not be be impatient, wanting to catchup on so much around here, inside AND out, but it's also awfully nice to sit in the sun & finish a book! will be getting 3-month checkups, first with dr.Fellows who gave me the chemo, & then next time with dr.Chan who did the surgery in SF, they want to share me. i have no anxiety about getting checked, am entirely confident the cancer's gone, it seems so in the past already. cancer year is over. |
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17 september - week 6.9 still slow starting, or i should say even more slow starting than normal, but today, a day off, i actually got some real garden chores done. a gorgeous day, september is maybe the most beautiful month here. the neuropathy in my feet hasn't entirely gone away, but it's fading. AND there's new hair on my head! the whispies are remnants, 'cos i never did shave, but this is definitely emerging fuzz!
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28 october - over 3months since last chemo treatment saw Dr.F last weekfor the3-month checkup, & it's all good; blood (CA-125 is 8.8, for those of you who know what that means), blood pressure, heart, lungs, etc etc. he said i can expect side effects to linger for a year or more -- the ones i'm aware of are low energy, fuzzyheadedness (yay, i can keep using "chemo brain" as an excuse!), occasional peripheral neuropathy in my feet, & what is apparently lymphedema in one of my legs. i'll be seeing my regular doctor soon, see what she says about that last one; Dr.F wasn't sure what to think about it but my counselor at cancer support group was familiar with it as a result, in some people, of lymphnode removal .
on sunday a couple of neighbors threw a tea party for my chemo helpers, what a lovely gift...
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