Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Recovery

It getting better all the time. The fatigue and brainfog are getting less and less noticable. Even waking up is a treat.

I'm learning more and more that there is life after tx.

I know I'm not posting as much as I used to... my darned computer has a virus and I'm waiting for Dell to ship the new on.

I get booted almost every time I come here to post.

Have a Beautiful Day!!

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Recovery - Day 9

I'm actually starting to feel human again and it's the simple things that I'm really enjoying.

While on tx my life was about work and bed. I was in bed by 7:30 or 8, up for 6:30 and in between I went to work. That was my life.

Now I'm able to see 10:30 or 11:00 and waking up in the morning feels so much better. It's so nice not feeling like I want to sleep my "time" away.

The brain fog and fatigue continue to become less and less every day.

I look forward to next week. That's big doin's for me....It's been a year since I could look forward.

Life is finally Ducky!

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Recovery - Day 5

Even though the Fatigue and brain fog is still hanging around a little bit, Man oh Man am I starting to feel better!

The abscesses on my head are healing up nicely....they itch like hell but that's a good sign. The swollen glands in my neck from the abscesses are starting to go down too.

Now this is starting to Feel like recovery!

I took my last Nuepogen shot on Thursday night and now I have to hear from Hershey about whether or not I can stop taking it. How nice it would be to be finally done with all injections!

WOOHOO! Life Is Getting Good!

Have a Wonderful Weekend Everyone!

Friday, January 16, 2009

Recovery - Day 4

I waited almost a year to say these words......

THANK GOD IT"S FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:)

Yesterday was pretty good. Each day seems to be a little better than the day before. With the infection and pain breaking up and the brain fog starting to slowly lift, this weekend should be nice.

I wound up with some bone aches from the Nuepogen shot last night but even that can't get me down today.

I look forward to next week. Life is getting better all the time!

Enjoy the Weekend Everyone!! :)

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Recovery - Day 3

Yesterday wasn't too bad.

The pain on my head is finally starting to let up. Itches like crazy but that's a good sign. My upper back is following my heads lead. Which makes sense because I think my back was caused by the pain on my head.

Even the Nuepogen behaved itself and didn't really cause much bone pain! How nice is that!

This morning waking up is slow but the further along I get the better I feel.

By this weekend I should be flying high feeling soooo much better.

Only problem so far with the day so far is that I'm going to have to go out. It's 8 friggin' degrees outside! brrrrrrrrrrr Tomorrow is supposed to be colder!

Wish we where going to Vegas this week! lol

Have a great day everyone!

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Recovery - Day 1

Wow is that a trip!...."Recovery - Day 1"....lol it's even fun to say!

We're back from Hershey with a script for Keflex to take care of the abscesses. This stuff should knock the infection out. Thankfully so since not only has it been painful but it seems to be causing the glands in my neck to swell. 10 days of taking 1500mg. a day should definitely do the trick.

I had the pleasure of taking all my leftover drugs and my study log back. It was such a pleasure to hand it all over! Of course it would have been more fun to throw it all into the garbage...but I had to resist the urge, they wanted what ever I didn't use back. Party poopers!

I found out today that I might only have to run one more week of Nuepogen and Procrit. If my counts come back not too bad that'll be it! My fingers are crossed.

It's a very cold and dreary day outside but to me today was the brightest and sunniest day in the past year!

After getting back from Hershey I took my daughter to the DMV to get her drivers test for her very first drivers license. Because I drove her I had to hand over my license.....low and behold mine expired! Guess who had to get her license renewed.....yep! I'm now the proud owner for the next 3 years of a license that has a picture of me wearing a scarf on my head! Doesn't that stink! lol....life is just not fair!

But the good news....Ta Da Da Dum....Crystal passed! YeeHaw!!! Congratulations Crystal!!!! Good Luck World!

What a day! Time for me to go crash on the couch.....

Have a Great Night Everyone!

:)

Monday, January 12, 2009

Day 335

Well that's it! I'm done. Now it's time for recovery.

I think that recoverying from the 2 abcesses on my head are my biggest hurdle to get over first. Once their gone I should feel so much better.

For now my head and neck are killing me and I'm just wiped out from them and the last Interferon shot that I took on Friday.

With no more Ribaviron knocking me down this week I'm sure that I'll heal much quicker.

Anyway, I know that I just have to make it through this last little bout and things will get better.

I go to Hershey tomorrow. Maybe theres something that they could do to help speed this all along.

Have a Nice Monday Everyone!

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Day 333 - 2 to go

My last shot was last night and I almost didn't do it. I really felt like throwing it into the garbage.

In the end I was a good little girl and took my medicine. Thank God I'm done with the interferon.

Yesterday was painful. The abscesses on my head are driving me nuts. But I guess they have to run their course. Hopefully they start letting up over the weekend.

2 more days of ribaviron and a few more shots of Nuepogen and Procrit and I can get this last year behind me.

It's Saturday and they're calling for up to 8 inches of snow today. That's fine.....let it snow because I'll spend the day on the couch.

I can't wait until life gets better! I'm finally at the end!

Thank God!

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Day 331 - 4 to go

Yesterday morning wasn't too bad. By afternoon it became uncomfortable.....the kind of uncomfortable that makes you constantly shift your position trying to get comfortable. By evening I was ready for the day to end.

I came home, ate dinner with Jimmy downstairs at the bar and put the Poker Scores into excel for our Wednesday night Texas Holdem' players. Then I went up stairs watched a little tv until I couldn't stand it any more. I took the Nuepogen and Procrit shots, ate a vicoden and a sleeping pill and headed off to bed.

I can't wait until our evenings become normal again.

This morning waking up is slow going. Thank God for coffee. I'm a bit achey but I'm sure Ibuprofen should handle that. Hopefully my upper back doesn't decide to chime in later this afternoon like it did yesterday.

4 more days to go. Part of me wishes I could just sleep through them.

It's Thursday so I have another Nuepogen shot tonight and one more Peg. shot tomorrow along with 16 more Ribavirn. I can handle that!

I feel like boxer at the end of the final round. I'm beat to hell and back waiting for the bell to ring.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Day 330 - 5 to go

Yesterday was just another day of eating Ibuprofen all day at work and grabbing a vicoden as soon as I got home. My upper back and head screamed all day.

I couldn't bring myself to take the Nuepogen shot last night with the pain that I was already in. I just couldn't stand the thought of adding bone pain to it for this morning. I'll take the Nuepogen tonight when I take the Procrit.

I think I made the right choice because after sitting for a while with the heating pad, taking a couple of sleeping pills and going to bed, waking up this morning the pain seems to be better than it has been over the past few mornings. I'm actually sitting here at the computer without being hunched over to one side.....not to mention that I can actually turn my head without having to turn my whole body. (hopefully I'm not jinxing myself)

Maybe if I have this one more day to recuperate the bone pain won't double up with the rest of it.

I just want to make it through the day without eating Ibuprofen all day and having to take a pain killer as soon as I walk in my front door. I seriously Hate taking drugs!

If ever I needed Ducky to show up it's now!

5 more days to go....Come on Ducky do an old friend a favor!

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Day 329 - 6 to go

Man oh man yesterday was long. I spent the day fighting with myself about taking Vicoden while I'm at work. I already have enough brain fog and I didn't want more. In the end I stuck with Ibuprofen until I got home. The minute that I was in the door I grabbed a pain killer.

Between the abscesses on my head and my upper back killing me, I just sat and struggled the day away.

On the way home I stopped at the drug store and picked up some of those stick on hot pads. Which by the way really don't get very hot and where probably a waste of money. I wound up using my old hot pad up until I went to bed and then I stuck a couple of the stick on pads for the rest of the night. I popped a couple of sleeping pills and went out for the count.

This morning waking up my head is killing me, but at least I think my back might be a little bit better. Hopefully I'll be a whole lot better before tonight's Nuepogen shot. The thought of bone pain on top of the pain I'm already in makes me want to skip it....but I know my blood counts can't afford that.

Jimmy and I have changed our plans a little. We've decided to go to Vegas the first week of April and hold off going to Disney until Fall. We fly out on April 1st and back on the 7th. The Glass Craft Expo will be out there and neither of us wants to miss it. Last year I was so sick all of the time that I really couldn't enjoy so many things that I wanted to. This year will be a blast! I'll be off of tx and detoxed by then. So look out Vegas!

6 days to go.

I hope today gets better....

Monday, January 5, 2009

Day 328 - 7 days to go

It feels like tx is trying to get it's last lickin's in before the end of the final round.

I've felt like crap all weekend long and this morning is no better.

There are 2 new abcesses on my head from dry cracked skin and my upper back is killing me to the point that I've taken Vicoden. I hate pain killers and I hate Vicoden the most. It kills the pain but makes me feel more like shit.

I hope this doesn't last the whole 7 days.

All I can do for now is just consentrate on getting through work this week and hope that the pain goes away.

Right now though, I'd rather go back to bed.

Friday, January 2, 2009

Day 325

Well the Holidays have definitely caught up to me. I'm very thankful that I have 4 days off of work in a row to recuperate.

Hopefully I can get my body to cooperate with me before work on Monday. I seem to have aches and pains everywhere. Just sitting and typing is uncomfortable.

There's only 10 days left. I'm sure I'll get through them just fine.

It's Friday and tonight is Peg. night. I have this one and one more and then that's it.

I'm on my final count down...

10

Thursday, January 1, 2009

Day 324



Happy New Year!!!