So last week I was too sick to receive chemo, but luckily, depending how you look at it, I don't have to make it up, so this past Thursday it was treatment number 4. Surprisingly to me, but not my mom, my counts were still a little too low, so I did not receive the full amount of chemo drugs. I got 80% dosage. It wasn't too bad. The nurse was very nice and the afternoon wasn't too long. 8 more treatments to go. Hard to believe I have two more months of chemo to go.
Exciting news! My hair is starting to grow back! I am trying not to get too excited as I am not sure if it will fall out again in the next few weeks with this chemo medication. It took quite a while for it to fall out with the first round, but this is a different chemo med, so maybe the hair won't fall out. I guess only time will tell. In the meantime, I am enjoying watching my eyelashes and eyebrows grow back, and studying my head trying to decide what color the growth is looking like.... I think it might be blonde!
Ordered Christmas cards this evening, and wrapped presents the last few nights. I can't believe that it will be Christmas Eve in exactly three weeks! Yikes! The first snow is on its way overnight, and it can't be denied- winter is here. I am torn between wanting to speed up winter, and slow it down. I want to speed it up so that my treatments go faster, but I also want to slow it down because I just want to enjoy my family and life in general. It all seems to go too fast, and be too fragile. When I start to think about all I have ahead of me still treatment-wise, and wonder how many months and years out from treatment it will take until I am not nervous about a relapse, I just have to stop and take a breath and remind myself to take it one day at a time.
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