not too much is going on at the moment in the cancer dept. the nausea seems to have passed for the most part. but i'm still super tired. and i have weird pain in my joints that may or may not be from the neulasta shots. i'll check on it with the docs when i go next week for my chemo.
i have a cold starting, so i may take a day or so off from work this week so that i can rest and try not to get so sick that they'll have to push my chemo back. next wednesday is the last of this round, and i will be super mad if i have to delay it. that will mess with my surgery date and everything, too, so i really need to kick this cold before it gets out of hand.
the newest decision i have to make is whether or not to have a sentinel node biopsy on both sides. they will do one on the cancer side to see if it has spread, but the non-cancerous side is optional. i'm not really sure what the downside is... i know that if i don't have it done, and they find cancer on my healthy side they can no longer do a sentinel node biopsy, so they'd have to remove all of the nodes on that side. which isn't a good choice if you can avoid it. so i think i'll have it done, but i have to make sure there isn't some weird downside that i'm not aware of. i'll be putting that question out to the support group :)
and here's the craziest thing: some of you know that i was introduced to my support group through a friend of mine from high school. she was a year behind me in school, and when she heard about my diagnosis she got in touch with me and it turns out that she's a year ahead of me in the bc fight. i thought that was pretty crazy- having 2 of us diagnosed from the same high school/circle of friends in our early 30's. then i went back to support group last week and met kate. we ended up "friending" each other on facebook, and when she looked at my profile she saw where i graduated from. she graduated from hamilton a year ahead of me! so now there are 3 of us- all in our early 30's, all with different types of bc, in the same support group 10+ years later. maybe hamilton has bad water. kate, by the way, had no idea that shannon went to school with us. small world.
i was able to go for a little walk today with izzy which was really nice. i realized that this was the first walk i have taken with her. when symma was this age (or around this age at least) we would go for walks to the corner and back every day, but things are obviously a bit different now. plus she just started walking in december... in any event she is a hoot to try to walk with. she squats down and wants to look at every ant she sees crawling, and every flower, and every blade of grass. it took us quite a while to get to our destination- the giant lilac bushes that are about 3 blocks away. lilacs are my favorites and i've been wanting to get to the bushes so badly before the blooms are gone- they're in full afternoon sun, so these come early and leave early. i typically walk there every day in spring- obviously not this year. but izzy and i got there today :) she was very funny with the flowers- almost afraid of them. she definitely didn't like them touching her face, and didn't seem to get how to smell them. but she enjoyed the walk, and i enjoyed my flowers, and it was so nice to have some one-on-one time with her. and i managed to give both girls a bath before bed, so that's good too :) all in all a good day!
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