Wednesday evening - 2 down...

Chemo went well. Okay, in order:

First - as always - I got weighed. I gained back almost 3 pounds. ( My guess is that's the weight I lost over the horrible weekend of not eating, vomiting and having diarrhea - not real legitimate weight loss. I'm fine with it.) Then blood work. Then meeting with Doctor R, with whom I went over the past 3 weeks since Chemo #1 and told her all the details. I really like her. She was determined that I should not have the horrible experience dealing with taking the necessary drugs -- chemo, anti-nausea and pain pills - and then suffer constipation from those and then suffer worse from the so-called cure for that. So now I'm taking as a prophylactic a much gentler plant-based laxative (took one tonight). She prescribed some sort of awful sweet liquid that I have to "swish and spit" several times a day because she feels I'm developing a slight yeast infection in my mouth, apparently another common side effect. And she wants to hear if I experience any numbness in my hands and feet (I did last time - in 3 fingers and a couple toes on my left side, but it went away after a few days). Apparently this can be serious and even permanent.

Then I had chemo. No surprises - except that I had a another turkey sandwich for lunch and while it was good, fine - it wasn't out of this world as it was last time. It could be that I didn't eat it last time until 2:30 and this time I was included in the first round of lunch serving - at about 12:30.

V drove me to the appointment (oh - before that, my lovely son called me this morning to say hello and send love before the chemo - that was nice). H came and sat with me for a couple of hours from around 10 or 10:30 until noon at least. And David picked me up. I was able to go to the office holiday dinner tonight I did not east like a horse, but i ate well and the food was good - I just skipped the dessert which wasn't particularly inviting, at least to me.

So that was my day. Tomorrow I go in at 2:30 for the NuLasta shot. I'm really really hoping the pain is manageable this time with just Motrin. I want to go to the baby shower for K on Saturday with J and Kim from work.

I'm feeling okay. I'm tired. I think I will sleep very well tonight.

I send love to each of you reading this.

And peace.