No Creative Title In My Brain Tonight

Despite beginning to rebound from chemo, I haven’t been posting much. I find it difficult to type on a computer thanks to the peripheral neuropathy and my fingernails being taped up to keep them from completely falling off. Plus my ordinarily scattered mind is extra distracted, making a coherent composition challenging. Therefore, this will be another post typed with one partially numb thumb on my phone. 

I’m a week out from my LAST Taxol treatment. I felt lousy most of last week but it was comforting to know this is the last round of that misery. As mentioned before, I need to have a new temporary expander placed in the right breast since the original was removed in December due to infection. That surgery is scheduled for May 9. Once it heals sufficiently and is fully expanded, I can be cleared to start radiation. I was told to expect 4-6 weeks, although as I know from last fall - these things can vary a lot!  Another bit of good news from last week - I will only require 5 weeks of radiation and not 6.  Every little bit helps!

Not much more to update now. Except that I keep thinking I feel better, then I do something relatively “normal” and end up crashing with exhaustion afterwards. This morning I went for a walk with my usual running buddy, dropped of the kids for school and then stood chatting with a mom friend after school drop off. That was the extent of my productivity for the day. The rest of the day I was wiped out watching Call The Midwife and napping. 

I realized tonight that I got a little sun while standing outside talking this morning. I have developed a decent habit of applying sunscreen lately, but had not reapplied yet today. Ugh. Warm skin doesn’t help the hot flashes. The hot flashes are so miserable and long some days now that I’ve started going for ice packs in the freezer when they hit!