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Mouthsores! 4 to be exact

How to spend a Friday when you're not getting chemo!

One more to go in Round #3

I have made it through another chemo session. 4 more to go, very exciting to most of my body except my breast which are starting to FREAK out! Today I experienced an increase in anxiety realizing how close I am getting to mastectomy time. I started re-researching all the statistics trying to re assure myself that double mastectomy is the way to go. Still working on re assuring myself!

This weekend was better than last weekend. Not as tired as the weekend before. My face looks horrible. Does anyone remember the guy in the movie Hellraiser, that is kind of how my face looks. Ok, well I just looked up a picture of the guy from Hellraiser and my face looks nothing like that (he has pins sticking out of his face) but that is how I feel so I am going to stick with that description.

I have been taken off my oral chemo for the week. They are trying to get my mouth sores under control. I still think they are related to my infused chemo. They seem to cycle with when I get that medicine not the oral medicine that I take everyday, but I guess we will see what happens on Wed./Thurs., that is when I usually get them.

Overall, it has been a decent Monday and I am looking forward to tomorrow, hoping my mouth quits tasting like rust. Doesn't really taste like rust but it has a nasty taste and the taste of rust seems comparable to what I have been tasting for the last 3 days. It will be over soon, usually by Tues./Wed.

What in the world am I going to do when I don't have side effects to guide my days!

Round 3

I have started round 3 and without complaining too much it has been a crummy weekend. The usual side effects but a little more tired and nauseous than round 1 and 2. My face is all broken out and I even took Tylenol PM both Fri and Sat. night. I thought this helped with the rash the last time around but rash is here is full force and I had a terrible sleep Friday night. I have new medicine that I get the privilege of taking for the rest of my chemo to try and keep away the mouth sores.

And a good note the Dr. says the tumor is barely palpable. That if you didn't know it had been there you probably wouldn't be able to find it at all.

I thought I would post some pics. I feel like all I do is complain on this blog but hopefully these pics will show that all is not that bad.