YIPEE!!! Finito With The Chemo!!!

Done with the chemical death juice...on to the healing process!!! Posted November 15, 2006

Ahoy All!!!

Wooohooo!!!! Stick a fork in me, I'm DONE!!!! I won't lie to you...it stomped my butt FLAT this time AND my glucose went through the roof (nearly 400) with the decadron...but I'm done (with the chemo part at least) and that is what counts!!!

I go back in a week for more labs to just check my white count and hemoglobin (got more Procrit for the anemia today, but no Neupogen so I was happy), then they will probably put me on some hormone stuff depending on whether they figure out if I'm peri-menopausal or post-menopausal...yes, at 40 I am (hopefully) done with the PMS stuff too...although I'm hoping that I'm more post-menopausal so that I don't have to deal with the hot flashes as often as I have been....whoa, those flashes are totally EVIL. Hot flashes are like taking a sudden trip to the equator without benefit of the beaches, cabana boys or umbrella drinks!!! If I'm gonna sweat like I'm on the beach in St. Croix...at least have Paulo there to hand me a Rum punch!!!

Anyway...my doctor says that it'll be at least 6 weeks from now before he thinks that I'm recovered enough from chemo to go back to work, but ultimately it's gonna depend on how well my wounds have healed by then...yes, they are STILL not completely closed, so more waiting....although I'm getting Apligraf put on next Monday....Ask Annie Turonis about Apligraf; it's interesting stuff...to help it heal over.

Oh, and I'm now that I'm done with chemo...I'm moving back to the Chula Vista area (my brother's place in Eastlake)...as soon as I am not so wiped out from this last round....more info later. Thanks again to Jerry & Kelly for providing me with a place to recover...it means so much more than they will ever know...it made chemo so much easier to handle.

Love to all,
Mel