out of menopause

Yuppie,  I am no longer in chemo induced menopause!!! :) It had been almost a whole year to the day.  I am glad that my body is recovering from all the chemical insult / help it has received.

looks good :)

this post will have to be brief. We have Dan's boss coming over for dinner, most of the food is ready but I still have to vacuum :)

Dan and I met at the Cancer Center this morning. The nurse took us back, weighed me, and walked us to the examination room. When she put my folder on the countertop to take my blood pressure, I could see that a report was at the very top and with big letters it said "looks good". yaaay!

That was a great feeling.

Then the doctor came and basically read the report. The lesion is still there, but it hasn't grown and even maybe looks a little smaller or less prominent than it did in January. The fact that it is stable and the fact that my liver enzymes were all within normal range were all great news. The doctor was very relieved, when I asked her when I should have my port flushed, she said that instead of having it flushed I should have it removed!!! yaaay! so I will make an appointment with the surgeon and schedule my mastectomy and with it the port removal.

I am so relieved, so happy and so thankful.

Actually last week or so I have been feeling that my body is well! instead of being worried that there may be something wrong with this part or another.

Cheers everybody!

Toenails, toenails

I got the MRI scan yesterday. It wasn't bad, the worst part was getting the IV in for the contrast. Because they cannot use my left arm (due to lymph node removal), they always use my right arm, and all my veins on the right arm have been hiding. There is one decent vein that they like to use, but it turns out that one got a lot of scar tissue, so the nurse yesterday worked for a long time to get the needle in, so here is my wining: it hurt a lot...

Then the MRI part wasn't bad, I know the drill now, bunch of breath holding, lots of noise from the machine, beautiful Vivaldi - 4 seasons playing in the background.

I am going to the Dr. tomorrow to get the results and also have my 2 month check up.

If you have been following the blog, you probably know that I lost my two big toe nails during chemo -- well they didn't totally fall off, but I would say the Podiatrist had to cut off so much that I had only about 1/4 of the nail there. Further more I got fungal infections so I have been using topical fungal medication to get rid of that. I have been very excited because they are almost full grown now. But a few weeks ago it seemed that they were growing into my flesh, so I started occasionally soaking them in warm water and then pushing the skin off the nail's path. Well, yesterday night the nail caught up and the pain woke me up from my sleep at 2:30 am. I had to take an Advil to go back to sleep. Thankfully I could get an appointment with the podiatrist and he cut off the edges of the nails, that took off the immediate pressure. Now we have to make sure that it doesn't get infected.

OK, I better go and get the dinner ready so we can get the girls in bed by 8:30 pm. It is getting harder to get them to bed on time with the days getting longer, but hey I am not complaining, I love coming home and still have it light for a while.

Wishing you all a beautiful spring time!

Another MRI scan tomorrow

Tomorrow morning I will have another MRI scan of the liver. I am hoping/praying that the scan will show that the lesion is resolved and that I can relax a little. On Thursday I have an appointment with the Dr. to get the results and also have my 2 month check up. I am happy that I did not see my oncologist for a total of 2 months!! I think this is a first for over a year now! yaay!
My anxiety levels are up, but today I had an acupuncture session and it did calm me down. I will post an update on Thursday to let you all know.