After the Seventh Chemo: Somewhat less throwing up
Well, the good news is that I haven't vomited up the contents of any of my meals... yet.
I did have what I've taken to call a "phantom vomit" - where it feels like I'm throwing up everything in my stomach, but the only thing that comes out is saliva - right before chemo. Before any medicine was injected in me. At this point, I'm starting to wonder if there's some kind of psychosematic factor involved. I felt another vomit coming on just as I was exiting the chemo therapy area, rushed into the nearest bathroom - and, sure enough, more phantom vomit.
After I had lunch with my mom, I was worried that I would get a real vomit this time, but nothing happened. And, for some reason, this time around, I was less sleepy than I usually get after chemo. I feel asleep at around 2:00 PM, woke up at 5:00 PM and stayed awake for most of the day.
I did wind up sleeping until 10:30 AM next morning - and taking my sweet time getting up. After I showed and brushed my teeth... I would up getting another phantom vomit. But this time, it expelled the remains of the anti-nausea med along with spit. But by that point, I was supposed to take another anti-nausea pill anyway.
We'll see how it goes for the next few hours.
My hair is still falling about, but slowly. With two months and two weeks left to go, a lot can happen, but kind of hope that I would be able to make it through with most of my hair intact. Or at least enough to look like most. Especially since I do see new hair - short, thin patches - growing in at some of the spots where it fell out completely. And the hair that hasn't fallen out is still growing, which is... interesting.
Yesterday, while in the bathroom, I noticed that entire patces of hair on my legs are gone, with new, shorter, stubble-like hair growing in. This doesn't particularly bother me, since, well, you can't see that hair, and, as anybody who knows me well would tell you, I've never been terribly attatched to my leg hair anyway. But a part of me can't help but wonder if that's what awaits the hair on my head in the future.
Seven chemo sessions down. Five sessions to go.
I did have what I've taken to call a "phantom vomit" - where it feels like I'm throwing up everything in my stomach, but the only thing that comes out is saliva - right before chemo. Before any medicine was injected in me. At this point, I'm starting to wonder if there's some kind of psychosematic factor involved. I felt another vomit coming on just as I was exiting the chemo therapy area, rushed into the nearest bathroom - and, sure enough, more phantom vomit.
After I had lunch with my mom, I was worried that I would get a real vomit this time, but nothing happened. And, for some reason, this time around, I was less sleepy than I usually get after chemo. I feel asleep at around 2:00 PM, woke up at 5:00 PM and stayed awake for most of the day.
I did wind up sleeping until 10:30 AM next morning - and taking my sweet time getting up. After I showed and brushed my teeth... I would up getting another phantom vomit. But this time, it expelled the remains of the anti-nausea med along with spit. But by that point, I was supposed to take another anti-nausea pill anyway.
We'll see how it goes for the next few hours.
My hair is still falling about, but slowly. With two months and two weeks left to go, a lot can happen, but kind of hope that I would be able to make it through with most of my hair intact. Or at least enough to look like most. Especially since I do see new hair - short, thin patches - growing in at some of the spots where it fell out completely. And the hair that hasn't fallen out is still growing, which is... interesting.
Yesterday, while in the bathroom, I noticed that entire patces of hair on my legs are gone, with new, shorter, stubble-like hair growing in. This doesn't particularly bother me, since, well, you can't see that hair, and, as anybody who knows me well would tell you, I've never been terribly attatched to my leg hair anyway. But a part of me can't help but wonder if that's what awaits the hair on my head in the future.
Seven chemo sessions down. Five sessions to go.