more medicine days
August 23, 2009
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!!!
Cecily, thinking of you and glad you have made a breakthrough to have the treatment go better. We love you and think of you and pray for you every day. If you get a chance, please email your mailing address, thanks, Sharon and Dan
Cecily,
I’m so glad that you found something that helps your body to rest and tolerate the chemo much better. shwoo!
Thinking of you often…
Blessings,
Kris
thanks aunt kris!
yayayay! that rules! what’s the good medicine called? does it mean you wont have to go through barfy-time during the next round? you are no doped up toothy-monster! you my buddy!
<3 !
i'm going to work for about 4800 consecutive hours right now, but when they let me go i wanna chat it up with you. i miss you buddy! keep on keepin on, love!
Hey Cecily:
was it Kyrtril? that was the only one that worked for me.
sending you crazy amounts of love and good thoughts.
(Zizi’s in Kauai)
oxo
not kytril- ativan with zofran. it’s a miracle! thanks for the good thoughts michael:)
thinking of you, dear old friend.