Updates

It's been a few weeks since I've updated this. The main reason is that I've been so busy. We've been doing a lot of recruiting at work, so that keeps me busy during the day. I'm still tired a lot, which is one of the side effects, but it's not too bad. And I've been heading to a few football games down at Tech, which had mixed results.

Today is the last of my first set of chemo treatments. My lab work is good - my white blood cells are in the range they should be; same with my platelets. My red blood cells are still a bit low, but not enough to worry about. Tomorrow I'll come back in for my injection. And that will be it for that! I'm very happy that this round is almost done.

Then I'll start on Taxol and Herceptin for 12 weeks. That is supposed to be easier than what I'm on now, so that's positive. I'll still be tired, but I can handle that - heck, I've handled this for 2 months now. So that'll be much easier. And once the Taxol is done, my hair will start growing back!

Then I'll have a few weeks off. I have to have more surgery, which I'll have dates in a few weeks. But I am doing the double mastectomy and also having my ovaries removed. I'm not looking forward to that, but it has to be done. I'll do it right after tax season is over. Hopefully the recovery time will be short! I can't afford to be out of work too long, LOL. Meanwhile, while that is going on, I'll be on the Herceptin every 3 weeks for about 40 weeks. And some drugs, of course.

Overall, I'm doing okay. I still have bad moments (usually at night), but I'm getting through them. I'm learning to accept all of this and I think I'm dealing with it as well as can be expected.

I just came back from a few days at Disney with Debbie. We had a blast! It was exactly what I needed - to go away and forget about all of this for a few days. I wish I could go back again soon, but the next trip will be at the end of June.

Thank you to everyone who has read this, and commented. I'm still behind on my thank you's - they'll get out one day!