No Disassemble Mandi 5
As I move into my 6th month of chemo this year I am getting pretty exhausted. Each one compounds over the last. I am missing about 50% of my fingernails, my skin on my hands is peeling off, I can’t feel half my feet. I wake up in puddles of sweat when I do manage to fall asleep after getting my back pain under control (cancer is a blast). I am also discovering that I am living life as 50% of myself. I am 50% of myself at work....
Chemo Land
Today is the big infusion 6 of the Taxotere/Perjeta/Herceptin combo. After three infusions we saw BIG things. Tumor markers took a nose dive and my spine and tumors in my lymph nodes disappeared in the night like a ghost (we did call this #chemohauntingof2015). Now we have 3 more infusions under my belt. The tumors in my lungs were shrinking, I am not completely sold on the fact that they are HER2+ like my spine tumors were. I think...
Mandi Got Hair, Flying High and the Big Race!
Last week was a culmination of “ZOMG I can’t get out of bed” and this week was the antithesis. It was an amazing week of busy things, but it was awesome. My week started with the hole in my jaw now being CLOSED. No hole. Bye bye. Healed. Yay! Thursday was the evening I spent with While You Heal. I got a makeover and had a real human hair wig fitted, cut and styled. Many of my friends and family came to see the big...
Jaws, The Mouth Edition
It has been a rough week. Mike and I got in a car accident shortly after I got back from Philadelphia. We were in a turning lane at a dead stop and the car came out of the parking lot barreling at us turning left and expecting to meet the 40 MPH traffic. The sun was setting and apparently he just somehow did not see the car at all. They hit Mike’s side of the car. We were both wearing our seat belts, but I was shook up and my...
Living with Mets, Conference Style
I must be slightly crazy, but I still packed my bags to head to Philadelphia. Chemo Friday, flying the Thursday after. Not that that sounds like much on top of camping, but with camping Mike did most of the work and my chemo side effects really start to kick in late Sunday and are at their finest the Monday and Tuesday after my infusion. Mondays I typically stay home and head in to the office on Tuesday. Tuesday I was sick. The chemo...