Well, that last one got me. I had my last treatment of the two drugs on Wednesday,and by the time I got home that night, I had pretty bad skin sensitivity across the top of my back. Throughout Thursday it escalated, but by Friday morning, I was pretty well done in. I was weepy all day, and PJ and family changed plans and came to my house early instead of going to Auntie Roxann and Uncle Henry's. I told him he didn't need to come babysit me, but he didn't care what I said. Good boy I have there, huh? I haven't felt great for over two weeks, and I really don't like that feeling! I didn't take the steroids this time, and I wonder if that's why I had the pain I had. The steroids were for nausea, and that has not been a problem, so I chose sleeping over preventing nausea when I hadn't had that problem. The previous treatment, the steroids gave me insomnia and sleep-deprived Chris is not a nice girl! The pain is now gone, I am sleeping, and only had a little nausea last night and eating oatmeal and Tums took care of that! The next 4 treatments are a different drug, and nausea is not a side-effect, so no Emend ($110 a pill) no steroids, (Yea, I get to sleep) and longer treatment time. I will miss those 4 Wednesdays working at the restaurant, but so far that will have been all I have missed. On to treatment 5!
I had a great Christmas with PJ, Cassy and their boys. They kidnapped me on Christmas Eve so I wouldn't be alone Christmas morning. I think they wanted my orange sweet rolls I bought to enjoy all by myself. Dad always used to make the orange ones for Jean and I because we didn't like the cinnamon rolls. I love the cinnamon rolls now, but have to bake the orange ones for the warm fuzzy it gives me! We took tons of pictures of Braeden and Gavin, enjoyed our rolls, and then went to Mummuu's and PaPa's house for lunch. Great food, lots of family, and new hats from Tonya! You should see that woman knit. She is amazing.
I hope you all had a blessed Christmas. Thanks for all the prayers and positive thoughts, they are working!
Love, Chris
Glad you could enjoy a little Christmas fun. Sorry this round was a bummer. Praying the next ones are a breeze and you are done soon!
ReplyDeleteGod bless you Chris. You are one very strong woman and life has some great plans for you so hopefully you will get this over soon and be stronger than ever. You have remained in my prayers and heavily on my thoughts. I really admire how well you are handling all of this. God bless you.
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