As I’ve mentioned all along, the effects of chemotherapy are cumulative. We’ve been really fortunate in that it has usually only been the first day or so after the treatment that Holly has felt really lousy. Unfortunately, this week has been pretty bad. All of the effects of chemo are starting to catch up with Holly and she feels terrible.
The worst part for her is that this awful disease is taking things away from her. Last night, it was back to school night for our son. Not that it is the end of the world, but because of, for lack of a better expression, digestion issues, she feels like a prisoner in our home. She feels like she is missing important chunks of her life. She’s simply sick of feeling terrible, sick of being tired, sick of not wanting to do anything, sick of not being able to do anything.
We know that it will get better over the next few days, but right now, there is no getting around it. Cancer sucks.
This is kind of the look that Holly always gets when I bust out the camera in weird situations. The ‘Schnaars, put it away’ look.
We met with Dr. Uyei this morning to find out about the CT from last week. Good news!!! The spots in Holly’s chest was simply a remnant thymic. What is that you ask? I had no idea and had to Wikipedia it myself. Essentially, it is an organ that helps in the creation of T-Cells. You can look that one up, but it is good news.
We also found out that we miscalculated the number of chemo treatments that Holly has in our favor. We had thought that after today she would have had 4 more treatments, when in fact, she only has 3 more. W00T!!
Finally, Holly had her 5th treatment today and feels horrible. Tomorrow will be better.
Holly had her 4th Oxiliplatin treatment today. Like always, it sucks. She went in feeling great and came home feeling crappy. I don’t know how she wills herself to go or take the pills everyday. To knowingly take a poison. I don’t know.
She came home and crashed. She woke up and we watched a couple of episodes of Cash Cab and she crashed again.
It’s late and I’ve got a bunch of work to do so I’m gonna keep it short. The next big event is a CT Scan on my birthday (10/8). Maybe we’ll get a cake with that enema. You’d think that they would give us some sort of frequent guest card or something. Like Starwood points. Instead of free breakfast or room upgrades, we’d get warm hands, fancy lube and maybe less insurance hassles.