Feeling okay. Now.
We added Avastin this time. And I took only 2mg dexamethasone. Fasting works!
Was nauseated. Good grief I hate nausea.
Now, nausea has passed and my tongue is raw. Have you ever tried brushing your teeth with spicy toothpaste and a raw tongue? Wowza! My eosophagus, stomach and intestines are also raw. Throat Coat tea helps.
My sense of taste isn’t the same.
Shanthi said she’s willing to add oxaliplatin at a low dose later on if I continue to do well.
I want to cry when I think of adding oxaliplatin.
My hair began falling out again. I’m certain I started out with thicker hair this time than before. Something I have always wanted. To whoever might be listening - if it grows back again, please can I have it even thicker, red and curly? Or, could I just not have cancer.
I had been hoping my hair wouldn’t fall out this time. That was a possibility, apparently. So I’ve left it longer, pulling out handfuls of hair at a time, hoping that it would stop, knowing this is the result of only my first chemo round.
So, I cut my hair to a short-back-and-sides numbers 6 and 8.
Aubrey cried.
“It looks disgusting.”
“You look like Smarter Every Day.”
I actually like it, but it’s continuing to fall out in which case I may end up shaving it fully. I wish I could channel Jada Pinkett Smith.
I am waking up in the night with tummy troubles but finally they are not double-over-crying-with-pain-until-I-vomit type troubles. They’ve settled down to annoying enough I can’t sleep but not really painful. Hurrah! Progress.
It’s raining. The ducks are thrilled.
The ducks have a new title: Heads of Slug Security.
I remain in awe of the Ukrainians and everyone around the world who fights for their own freedom.
I think both are OK and true and accurate. I hold you in Love and Light each day. KC
You in red curly hair? Interesting... Kate had dark curly hair and we always joked I had a "new" girlfriend. Your request made me so smile, and the follow-on request for how about just no cancer choked me up. We will get there. Day by day, you two (and the kids) living through the most horrific events, but amen for your grace and humor and wisdom. If I am allowed a vote, I vote no cancer *and* red, curly hair!