Chemo Round 4: the Aftermath

Hi! Luckily, there are very few after effects to talk about. 🙂 This has been a decent go-round. I still credit drinking lots of water. Having a five-day weekend to nap also was a big help. The week after chemo generally doesn’t involve a lot of quality sleep. I sleep a lot but it’s interrupted. There’s always one night where I wakeup in the middle of the night and can’t go back to sleep. So this time, I got to sleep in. (Usually it’s been on a school night!)

I did not attend any T-give activities – that allowed me to not do a dang thing but rest. This was lovely. Lovely in the sense that I didn’t have other stressors, not in the sense that I had a grand old time laying around in bed. I’m not always napping, either. Sometimes I just need to lay there and not think about what my body may or may not be experiencing.

Appetite has been normal – no problems there minus a dull sense of taste. My body doesn’t feel heavy this time, but it’s still a lot of energy to just get up and walk around. I’ve been staying on top of the nausea meds, so that’s been fine. The only weird thing is that my eyes are always twitching. Not sure if that’s part of some neuropathy or what. Still, pretty low on the annoyance scale.

I’m pretty happy to have four out of six chemo sessions done. It feels like forever but also last week that I started my first session. I’m hoping it won’t go long, but it would be my luck to have to move surgery out. I’m pretending I’m not planning on it happening, but I kinda am. Still, maybe all you can bring it into being. 😉 It’ll be what it’ll be and I’ll have my surgery either way.

It is a bit exciting for me to just have the surgery on the calendar. I want to be DONE with chemo, that’s really the biggest part. It’s hard and it’s draining when all I really want to be is a normal human who doesn’t need body parts chopped off, but you know, I’m in it now. To have really the hardest part out of the way is good, really good. It feels good to have done it. And now I’ll kick ass all the way to surgery!