(no subject)
I finished chemo round seven almost two weeks ago. In previous months by four or five days after the last Temodar for the cycle goes down my gullet I have been back to feeling mostly okay. Not so much this time. I'm still extra tired and I just don't feel all that great sort of like I"m coming down with something. I guess I will find out if that is the case tomorrow when I see my doc and we discuss my blood work. I've also been having more focal seizures this month and that could be part of why I'm not feeling so great. They leave me feeling sort of sick to my stomach and disoriented - thankfully that feeling doesn't last long either.
Speaking of my blood draw, had one of my favorite lab techs as the lucky one to draw my blood. He always does a good job with me. I have been told that my viens are tricky - they like to roll over and play dead or go flat or they just go totally missing to make it difficult for people, Ty has never had a problem with me. He said yesterday that I was a piece of cake compared to some who are in there for daily blood draws. OMG, DAILY!! Monthly is bad enough. You'd think that after all these months I would no longer be sqeemish about needles but, you'd be wrong. I am still a big baby when it comes to being stuck. So, yesterday, Ty pokes me and sticks on the tube to collect my sample and I could hear the stream of blood going in, like when a cow is getting milked and the stream hits the bucket. That was just the sort of horror movie moment I didn't need. I didn't hurl but my stomach did a flip in protest. I told Ty that I didn't need to hear the blood flow to know that he was doing it. He thought I was being funny. I guess that I had a good stream. My blood pressure is always low but I am still getting the job done.
Tax season is finally over and this weekend is Easter. We don't have any plans that I know of. I see a nap in my future. I'm allergic to Easter Lillies and they show up everywhere this time of year so I don't go much of anywhere. I like breathing and they make that difficult. I'm making an effort to cut back on my coffee intake to see if I sleep better w/o it's interference. I'm drinking tea instead so I should miss out on the withdrawal headache. Maybe one of these days I will sleep all the way until my alarm goes off.
Oh and the flooding continues. Overland flooding between my house and Fargo makes all the fields look like one big lake.
TTFN,
E