Surgery Surprise!
No one ever said breast cancer was easy. I remembered late Monday night that I had a follow up appointment today to my appointment last week related to my surgical wound opening back up and looking infected. The wound had been looking a lot better this week, so I didn’t think about it too hard when I drove myself to my appointment. The surgeon looked at it my incision and the wound had opened up even more, again, which was...
Life is Charming
Not sure why, but this whole charm thing has taken a hold of me since I started chemo. Maybe it just gives me something to shop around for online when I am too tired to read or be too exciting (although exercise and diet really ave seemed to help a lot in managing fatigue). I am starting to try to pick out charms to add to my bracelet for milestones in my cancer treatment. I ordered devil charm for my next treatment which is the end...
Third Time’s the Charm
I got to sleep in a teensy bit before my appointment today. My breast that has the issues with the incision had some funny red marks on it and a purple spot where the gauze must have dug into my skin – so it was looking a little funky this morning which got me pretty stressed out, not that I haven’t already been stressed out this week as it is. The red marks were definitely from the tape yesterday (I was changing my gauze...
Fevers and Races
The breast cancer adventure continues this week. Yesterday I had a pretty bad headache all day and realized that I should check my temperature when I got home from work. I came in at 99.6. I definitely had a fever, but a low grade one which could be caused by just about anything. Paired with that was the fact that the area around my stitches had graduated from happy normal skin to red and mad skin. The fever stuck around until mid...
Ode to My Husband
Major life events such as being stuck as the caretaker for your sicko wife can tend to put quite a strain on a marriage (on top of being forced to quit smoking while you watch your wife go through rounds of tests and getting bad news on top of more bad news). The first month of all of this put both of us on an intense emotional roller coaster that made you scream each time you got to the top (not the fun kind of scream). Throw in...