Green Light! Let’s Go!

Great news: I got the green light from Dr. Gore for chemo. My white count has rebounded surprisingly well since last Monday (according to the nurse). This is perfect because it turns out that my second summer semester doesn’t start until next Monday and I’m getting closer to the end of this one week faster. It helps a lot that I’ll be feeling better next week when classes start instead of trying to get off to a good start during the week that I get chemo – the week I feel terrible and just want to sleep. 

Right now I’m just getting the “pre-meds” I always receive before a nurse starts the chemo drugs. I had IV steroids, IV nausea medicine, and now I’m getting IV Benadryl. I feel the Benadryl dragging me down and making me want to sleep now (for the third time since I got here at 8:45). I will be here for at least 2 more hours getting the chemo drugs (taxol and carboplatin) and I’m sure I will be asleep for most of it. 

Restarting the chemo pic tradition (I think I skipped last time and maybe the time before that):

No thumbs up this time. I just want sleep.

 

I need to say thanks again to all my family, friends, the people working here at the cancer center, and even people I don’t know who have been so supportive and go out of their way to be helpful. I know I haven’t said “thank you” nearly enough but I appreciate it so very much. 

 

Thanks urbandictionary.com. I forgot how much you make me laugh:

Classy smashed: the type of intoxication that occurs whenever wine or champagne is consumed.

Procrasturbation: to procrastinate by means of masturbating.

Banana guilt: the guilt one feels when unable to consume an entire bunch of bananas in between the time when they are at optimal deliciousness and when they’ve gone bad. (Ok, so I made this silly one up, lol)

Manstration: when a man is in a particularly unpleasant mood, for no apparent reason.