It’s really discouraging when you wake up in the morning feeling great, but know you are headed to the infusion center to get medicine which you know will make you sick. 🙁
But I went anyways! Bring on the poison and the date with my husband. (Thanks Christy for that text asking me how were enjoying our date – Hahahahahahaha!)
Jayme, my sweet nurse who cracks me up the entire time we are there, makes the time pass quickly. More on her later . . .
As the chemo is going in, things are pretty uneventful until about 20 minutes before we are done. Then I started to get chemo head, or what feels like a fog in/around my head and I started to feel a little tired. Right now (4 pm) my stomach is not sure what’s going on and is gurgling a lot. So I’ll keep an eye on that with the nausea meds ready. So tonight we sit and wait. Fun . . .
On the upside, I was able to do some graphics work for my blog while sitting there this morning. (See the cute new graphics for posts in the sidebar?) That made the time pass by fast!
Chemo round 3 with my hair on and a Carmel latte Tom ran and grabbed for me! I’m loving the wig!!
Thankful for another day, even if it means medicine that makes me sick, but is hopefully shrinking the cancer. 🙂
PS: I decided to start posting on my Leaving Cancer Behind Facebook page. It will in no way replace the blog or being notified when I post by email, but I want to be able to give quick updates during the day if needed. If you do like the page, please choose how to be notified when I post so it doesn’t disappear from your newsfeed. (More on how to do that here.)
When I send you a meal is there a type of meat you’d like…ham,turkey, beef or something else. I was thinking about something from Honeybaked Ham. They have a great selection.
A Honey Baked Ham sounds yummy. We haven’t had one of those in a long time!! 🙂 Thanks Aunt Carol!
I meant to tell you how much I like you wig. Very cute and natural-looking!
Thanks! I like it too and am slowly getting used to it! 🙂
Hi Jennifer! I love your blog and all the updates. You remain in our prayers and in our hearts. Love and hugs to you and Tom❤️❤️
Thanks Patti. 🙂
Thanks Patti. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family! 🙂
Jennifer,
I hope your chemo is less eventful in the nausea department this round. One more round done!! I took a number of nausea meds, but none worked. I was sick 24/7. One thing that calmed it a little, was watermelon…..
don’t know why. Tiredness is a given. Do you have insomnia? Your wig does look very natural and you look beautiful in it. Praying for you Jennifer. It’s not much fun feeling sick for days. Cancer follows you everywhere. But so does our Lord Jesus. He is working to perfect you and make you strong. He always encouraged me when I needed it most, and the minute I needed it!! The strongest people fight the hardest and never give up!! No pain, no gain!! Lots of HUGS to you in the hardest moments, the weakest moments, the sickest moments!!
Thank you Karen. Yesterday and today have been hard. This round seems to have hit me harder. But we’ll keep taking it one day at a time. 🙂 Watermelon sounds good! Too bad it’s not in season right now!