It has been a crazy week but I think I am starting to get a little more of my energy back...On Monday I saw the PS to do another quick fill on the foobs. I asked if we could do 100 on the right side because it seemed so much smaller and 50 on the left. That plan didn't work out so well...now the right foob is really sticking out under my arm pit and the left looks ok....Very mismatched!! It's kind of like going around all day trying to hold a softball in your pit....not sure I can hold another 250-300 ccs in there and not go insane!
Monday night Jillian had dance class and then on Tuesday I had our final rehearsal before the recital...things have not improved much on that front. We still look like a bunch of clowns up there trying to dance. Tonight is dress rehearsal but we only get a few minutes per group so there really isn't much hope that we can pull this together in the end.....boy, Jillian really better appreciate this.....
Wednesday afternoon I had another Herceptin treatment. That went fine. I was doing my usual....curling up in a ball in my recliner, trying to sleep but that didn't work out again. The older lady that loves to talk constantly while she gets treatment was there again and she was telling horror stories to a "newbie". This was a younger woman who had breast cancer. WHY DO PEOPLE DO THINGS LIKE THAT??? I could tell that the woman and her husband were gettng more and more nervous as the woman kept talking about all her muscles locking up during her first treatment and all her hospital stays because of complications....luckily, she has a short treatment so she had to leave before too much damage was done. After she left it was just the "newbie" and her husband and I left in the room....I was trying to decide if I should say anything to them because I had heard her say she was doing the exact same treatment that I did. They were talking to the nurse about the Neulasta shots and I finally just spoke up and told them that they might want to check with their insurance to see if they could get the shots at home like we did....instantly her husband got up and came and took a seat by me and started asking questions. We talked for quite a while and when his wife finished her treatment she even came and sat down with me. I just tried to give them tips on things that helped me and told her that I really do understand what she is going thru..she laughed when I said "it's ok to just say that all of this SUCKS"!....I didn't tell any "horror" stories...I just reminded her that every person reacts differently to the chemo and assured her that she will do fine and their two young children will be fine also......just take it one day at a time, keep up with all the meds and you will do fine. I gave her my email address and told her she could contact me if she wanted to. I also gave her info on the young survivor's website and told her how much it helped me out and still helps me today. They were a really nice young couple...I hope I hear from them so I will know how she is doing.
Work has been very busy this week. We had our first big group training since November...it brought back a lot of memories about starting chemo....I can remember my hair starting to fall out on the final day of that training and I was hoping I could just get thru my presentations. With the group this week I just wore a scarf. It was a litle uncomfortable to do that but I just did not feel like wearing a wig. On Wednesday night we took them all down to the Reds game. That was the first time I have been down there in years...I lucked out and it was a breezy evening and it wasn't too hot. The Reds got spanked by St. Louis so we left a little early and I was home by 10:30 but had to be back in the office around 7:00 yesteday to prepare for a full day of training. I had not given a large group presentation since November so I was a little afraid that I would get up there and just go blank...luckily, just once, I totally forgot the name of a type of ballast and my good friend Scott was right there ready to fill in the blanks for me. The entire program went really well and we sent everyone back to the airport at the end of the day. I was exhausted but happy that things went so well. This is really the part of my job that I enjoy the most...I really like to coordinate these events and conduct the training sessions...we plan to start doing more of these now that I am back to work full time...
Enough for now...time to start the day!
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