June 4, 2023
This next month better go by fast. I’ve had about enough. One more chemo on June 16th then I should be coming back out of this and feeling better around the beginning of July!
June 10, 2023
Treatment day 100! 265 more to go.
100 days of chemo!!!
That’s all, nothing exciting going on right now. Its been a long 100 days. Fast and slow at the same time. I’m so ready to be done with this. 1 more on Friday then I can put this part behind me, hopefully forever! Relief is coming soon!
June 14, 2023
Treatment day 104. 261 more to go.
I had my labs today getting ready for my final chemo treatment on Friday. (YAY!) I usually see my oncologist right before chemo, but they switched things up and now they see patients on lab day instead of chemo day so I also saw him today too. He went over what happens next and we made a couple more appointments for before/after surgery.
I have a follow up appointment with my surgeon on the 26th. Then labs again on July 20th to get ready for my surgery on Aug 10th. Then I’ll follow up with my oncologist with post surgery labs and a dr appt later in Aug. (23rd and 24th)
After my surgery we’ll get a report from the lab to see if there was a complete response to the chemo and anti cancer meds. Assuming there was I’ll start back on my 3 week schedule of anti cancer injections until I get to my March 2024 one year mark. If not then he’ll switch my anti cancer meds to something else because it wasn’t doing its job. But that’s as far as we went over that plan because he’s expecting a complete response.
Except for one follow up and one lab day, after Friday I’ll get a break for almost 8 weeks.
June 16, 2023
Treatment day 106: 259 more to go!
Today is my last chemo!!! So happy to put this behind me. 10 days of misery to follow then I can start putting myself back together again!
It’s tradition to sing to their patients on their last day. The nurse practitioner made up their song. A lot of places have you ring a bell, mine brings out the entire nursing staff on shift and sings to you. 🙂
June 22, 2023
Treatment day 112: 253 more to go.
SO happy to know that I’m done with chemo treatments!
I’m slowly getting through the side effects of my final treatment and it’s such a relief knowing I don’t have to go back to that. I went in for a hydration IV on Tuesday and feel a little better after that. Still feeling weak and probably will for a while after being inactive and “sick” for 3 1/2 months as well as malnourished for part of it due to an inability to eat for days at a time. My mouth still feels weird and my scalp is still sore so I’m looking forward to that finally subsiding for good.
Exercise is definitely in my near future! Can’t wait to get back in shape and feel good again!
Looking back at my posts through my treatment so far feels surreal. It was a long unpleasant few months, but at the same time doesn’t feel real. One more thing in life that I look back on and my first thought is, “did I really do that?”
The beginning feels so long ago.
Well, here’s to recovering from this part for a little bit longer and then moving on to step 2!