Ya Just Never Know

The internet has been on and off so hard to get on line to chat.  Right this minute I have the hiccups which is a side effect of the Emend pills I take today and tomorrow.   I have gotten them every time.  So, how am I doing you ask?   I woke up this morning and felt incredibly like it was Wednesday and not Friday.  I am doing very well.  Talking with Dr. Z Thursday I told her about my tummy just feeling yuck but not like I was going to vomit.  She said oh yes that will come from the chemo and I will prescribe you something for that.  They added something to my IV Thursday and then I have a prescription to take one time in the morning and it made a BIG difference.  I just need to learn to share more of that information.  I am so used to just toughing it out I don't realize there is stuff out there to help. 

So, I had my last Nuelasta shot this morning and glad to have this cycle done.  The nurse this morning told me before Neulasta they had to administer a shot 7 to 10 days in a row for the white blood cell count requiring patients to go to the hospital and have it administered - Nuelasta has been a huge improvement even inspite of the cost. 

We discussed the next cycle of chemo and whay I might expect with Taxol.  She said my hair might start growing back but don't get attached to it - usually doesn't stay.  She also said I should not lose any other hair - like my eye brows or eye lashes.  If I have them now I should have them for the Taxol.  They will monitor my white blood cell count.   I have to go for another echo gram and another test on Tuesday the 11th and then my first chemo for the next cycle begins Friday, October 15th at 8:30 a.m.  

I will just take feeling good each day as it comes and not overdue.  I have almost all the laundry done, I have been picking up a little, but no plans to go out and start weeding or scrubbing floors.  I have been chasing Bellaboo as she has been a bad girl today.   She jumps on me all morning long the day after chemo and then jumps through the house like crazy.