Feb. 26th has come and gone. It was a sunny morning and my second chemo date. Ed brought me to and fro and got me an organic smoothie full of health during treatment. I did sleep a whole lot during the infusion, in large part due to the Ativan and Benadryl blend given after the anti-nausea and before the chemo. After the infusion, which takes a total of about six hours, I went and got my head shaved. The hair was falling out in such an annoying fashion that I decided to make it easier on myself. It seemed appropriate to do this monumental thing coinciding with the equally monumental second chemo.
The beautician, Lisa, who carefully shaved my head pro bono, was wonderful. She would have shaped my new wig to my liking had we not discovered that without my hair, it is actually too big! Damn! This creates another needed outing to the Cancer Society office, the sooner, the better. I hope that I feel well enough after this infusion ends to handle driving there and making a decision...will be facing that decision in about an hour.
Last night I had the good fortune of having a healthy meal cooked for me after getting back to my house post head-shave. My rest was broken up, but decent last night. I awoke to ill feelings but used medications to conquer. I made a smoothie of cottage cheese, Greek yogurt, organic flax seed oil, spinach and strawberries. I took all supplements and drank herbal tea before driving myself to the Vitamin C infusion that I am now sitting through. I wrote about my first Vitamin C infusion in a previous blog and hope you will read it. I can report a definite increase in energy post infusion last time. This one, directly on the heels of chemo is hoped to help me at a low time on the trail this treatment takes me. A couple of friends have offered to drop over to assist me after I am home today and that is a relief. I am fighting nausea and will be spent after done with this infusion, shot and hopeful wig exchange. It had been a rather fun event to pick out a wig. In fact, truth is I couldn't decide between two and so I was allowed to take them both to decide at pleasure. Sadly, both were too large yesterday. Ed met me there and having some feedback made it extra fun. Lookin' like a solo run today, but I have a good idea of what I'm after.
I hope to figure out how to post pics on this blog. Bald head...wigged head...scarfed head....turbaned head....the many faces have I on the Life with Cancer track.
I appreciate calls, posts, company, offers of help during this sometimes tricky chapter. The donate if you can help button on this blog site has been pressed and the donation is paying for next weeks Vitamin C infusion! Any contributions made will be used to pay the costs associated with getting well and they are quite high at a no income time. Thank you for considering such an act of kindness.
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