It’s day 5 after the latest chemo infusion and I am doing the usual day 5 things. If you are curious, that is:
- laying around extremely weak after any physical activity
- GERD, hardcore GERD. The burning is the pits.
- Pooping and pissing out dead cancer cells en masse
This has been the experience at about this point every round, so it’s good to at least have something expected, even though it sucks so hard to go through.
I do have two new things happening today to add to the circus inside me.
I got my first random nose bleed for no reason this afternoon. Blew my nose just a little too vigorously in the shower. No platelets means it doesn’t take a lot to turn me into a Valu-Rite Romanov. My tapas are jacked. It did stop after awhile, but I have keep a close eye on all bumps, bruises, scrapes, and mistakes.
Secondly, my hair has started falling out in clumps. My hairline has been getting shy for a long time now, which is obvious to anyone that knows me, but now they’re all jumping ship at once. I guess I will go as Gollum for Halloween.
Other than that, I am just bopping around trying to remember whatever it was I was thinking of 15 seconds ago, feeling a lot of love for all my friends and family, and doing everything I can to make my spots disappear as quickly as possible so I can face the fear of surgery earlier than later.
How are you?