more medicine days

i’m back from my serene vacation and on chemo once again. It is difficult to describe the way the chemo pills make me feel. I found this photograph of train graffiti that i took a few years ago. it gets just close enough to my experience:

chemo-zombie

i felt this way during the first cycle as well as throughout the start of this second round.

Then, the doctors, ma, and i made a breakthrough!

I was vomiting all of day 3 and the neuro-oncology nurses warned that if i couldn’t stop throwing up they would discontinue my regimen and send me to the ER- i hate it there.

They had one drug left to give me, so i tried it and it works!! i have kept all my juice down and mostly slept since this discovery:) Today is my last medicine day. It will be smooth sailing and three weeks of normalcy after that, hopefully passing blood tests and starting it all over again.

I feel so much more comfortable and very relieved!!!