December 16th 2008 05:12 pm
Chemo today…so far so good!
Well, today started off with a bit of fun building things out of blocks with Kai! He’s so creative! After sending the boys off to work and school, I hustled off to my 8:45am chemo appointment. Things went really smoothly and a good friend, Keri, kept me company as we chatted and watched “Surviving Christmas” – cute movie if you’re looking for something! We went to lunch and then I came home and have been resting and surfing the net. Today I spent a lot of time on facebook looking up old friends and writing a few messages to many I haven’t seen in over 15 years. It has been fun to get to do that; I just know that it could consume my life if I let it! 🙂 It just sucks you in!
I am so excited about Christmas at Alliance Redwoods. I can’t wait to hit the beach – yes the beach in December. It’s tradition up there for us to go to the beach for a few hours with the entire family. Salmon Creek State Beach here we come. Bet those dunes aren’t really as big as I remember!
Thank you for your prayers. Please continue to pray for me as the side-effects generally are the worst the next two days. Something I don’t think I’ve posted is that I have been having daily bloody noses (avastin side-effect) and my nails seem to be dying. It starts with a red line or mark in the middle of my nail and then from there to the tip it begins to discolor. They are a little painful and ugly. I thought it was a new nail polish I had tried, but it’s just been getting worse instead of better without the polish. More than likely it’s chemo, so I’ll be painting my nails to cover it up and make them pretty! Fatigue has really been getting worse for me. It seems to be compounding. I just want energy to play with Kai and go to the Christmas parties (I went to two this weekend)!
We are still making offers on houses. One day we’ll have one of those offers accepted! I’m ready to be done looking at all of these homes.
Thank you to those of you posting on the encouragement board and sending responses to these updates…I read every single one and it lifts my soul. Girls from 6th grade – of course I remember you! Thanks for the fun messages!
Much love and Christmas joy to you all,
God Bless,
Monica
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One Response to “Chemo today…so far so good!”
wendideetz on 17 Dec 2008 at 11:47 am #
I had almost the same thing happen with my nails when I had my thyroid problem. Unfortunately, the only thing that seemed to fix them was going to Africa. (For some reason, during my trip, the whole thing cleared up and never happened again. Must have just been THAT happy to be there.)
Here’s to energy to play and party and to no chemo side effects – oh and a new home for the holidays!
Love you guys.