love is health
The final countdown9/17/2020 I'm a week away from finishing the chemotherapy leg of this journey. I feel like a barn sour horse - I can see my base in the distance, and am sprinting toward my return to it. Emotionally, I feel so ready to be done with chemotherapy, yet I'm painfully aware some of the side effects will hang on to me for months and years to come. I'm also cognizant of the fact that chemo isn't the end of the road - there are still several surgeries to get through. This can't restrain my optimism though. I'm alive, I'm energetic, and I have my faculties about me. I'm still grateful, and so ready to celebrate the end of this section.
Speaking of side effects - Taxol has been much kinder to me than Adriamycin + Cyclophosphamide were. I am so fortunate these past 11 weeks have been completely nausea-free. I've (mostly) had my energy, and have been fairly functional. While my skin is drier than the AZ desert, hands itchier than a pile of red ants, and brain slower than tortoise - I would take these over the GI upset (and, you know, hospitalization) of May and June. So there I am, standing at the threshold of the next stage - so close to the end of chemo. I'll see you at the finish line.
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