My buddy Larry said to me at dinner ," You're looking weak..." Well, I felt weak, too , yesterday. But don;t you think that is pretty par for the course with chemo on day two following infusion?
The actual infusion day went great on Thursday... I felt fine and felt pretty good the next morning, too. Oh, forgot to tell you, had a chest xray first and no fluid around the lungs, so went in to infusion doing better. And I had gained three pounds. All good stuff.
I really love my doctor. She is very soft, compassionate, caring. Made sure Iwas all settled and comfy in the chair before infusion began. My doc back in the desert would never have done that. I'm seeing what a difference the personality of the doc has on your psychological feelings and how well you do at infusion.
Mostly I have been either on or in the bed since the afternoon following chemo. Just hits and hits hard with this fatigue. But, I know that so don't panic when my legs just won't go but surely hate that feeling. I go to walk and my legs start to buckle. Have to stop, stand for a minute holding on to something and then try again. This too shall pass.
Finished reading " Mrs. Astor Regrets." The rich are surely different. Enjoyed the book and now have it packaged up and stamped MEDIA MAIL so I can ship it off to a friend in Washington State to read and enjoy.
My son Lee got me a book , " Secrets of the Hollywood Girls Club". He says he didn't know anything about the book, got it at a book expo but it has a flashy cover and he thought it might be a fun read. I took it along to read during infusion. Well, let me tell you, what a hoot! It has so many hot sex scenes Harold Robbins would blush reading it and I feared the nurse would look over my shoulder and think I was in to porn or something. Told Lee, we had a good laugh and then he checked out the reviews for the book and they were all good... critics consider it a humor book. Okay, sex you can laugh about....
Anyone else using this typepad frustrated? It jumps around and I can't get even one sentence written without back spacing and deleting and feeling angry. Daughter Linda wrote that she figured out how to get past this , think she is writing in WORD and then pasting it in. I may have to do that next time.
Okay, this is going to be a wrap for now.. time to get dressed and then eyeball the bed again! Hang in there with me, we will get through this. Now only four more chemo times..
This was a good post!
Sounds like a fun book.
We are keeping you in our thoughts and sending you positive energy. Hang in there, Jan.
Posted by: Cara OConnor | March 10, 2009 at 12:14 PM