Today is chemo day again. Time may have gone slowly for you, but for me, it zoomed by and I feel like I barely had time to rebuild back up some strength before it is time to go again. I really got knocked down for about 9 days this time, then like a curtain raising, the tide changed and I felt pretty good this last week and a half. Hey, I even went out to lunch with my friend Ann. Only went a block away but it was a nice a long lunch filled with lots of good chatter, so relaxing and a nice break for me.
I'm going to drive myself today. Big gutsy thing to do, but figure my oxygen battery ought to last long enough so don't need someone along to haul the electrical hookup and if all goes well, I should be out of there in under 2 hours and home in time to charge the battery a bit before dinner time.
I've done all my " before" chores, like laundry and refilling RX and stocking up on some things in the grocery categories, so think I am set. Just need to pick out a book to read while there. I never read " Water For Elephants" which was a best seller a year or so ago and had it here on my shelves so might take that. Don't feel like reading a mystery and have quite a few of those here that one or the other of my sons got me.
I'm mentally prepared for the next week, that debilitating fatigue after chemo. Dreading it, but ready mentally. Daughter Karen offered to come over one day and give me a hand with things I might need. What a sweetheart. And here she is in radiation therapy herself, but so far, so good and that fatigue hasn't hit her yet. I'm hoping she will continue to sail through it since they just bought a house and she is going to need energy to pack up boxes and all.
Our weather is perfect. No rain. Temperatues around 70, blue skies, no clouds and the air smells like the ocean. I think I will go sit outside on my deck now for a few minutes, take advantage of feeling good. I'll leave here about 1:15 for chemo, which means I can have lunch here first.
Tell me, read any good books you think I would like to read while going through chemo and staying close to or on the bed?
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