The strange and unusal

As mentioned before my hand swelled a bit with this last round...OK a lot. It seems that this, of all of the things I had, concerned my oncologist the most as he did not like the fact it was on the top side of my hand on the side I had the mastectomy. They (Nurse H and Dr R) kind of freaked me out with thoughts of blood clots and possible a cat scan should it occur again. I am to watch for any swelling in the arm (possible lymphedema beginning) and if my hand swells this time round I am to call them as they may want to give me a water pill first to see if that takes it down. I thought the numb face and loss of taste would raise concerns but nope..the red hand was the kicker.

And believe it or not, I have little hairs beginning to grown on the top of my head..not on the sides only the top. They are not in multitudes but at least there is more than a week ago so maybe this hair growth thing will start earlier than anticipated. I can only hope on this one. It is still too early in their growth to see what colour/texture they are going to be, but so far they look brown which is much better than the possibility of grey...stay tuned on this one. I have also got a long brown curly wig to play to my alter ego..but right now I look like a drag queen with it on so styling is a must...appointment booked with D on Monday.

So I had chemo number 5 yesterday and besides the poke of three times to get the IV in all went smooth. If you don't count the two hours it took to get my drug from pharmacy to the chemo floor by a porter....so my one hour timeline increased to three. So next round, the nurse will just inject and leave me as I had two round of this doxetaxol with no issues so that is the good news. Now if I can only arrange not to be seated next to the women who used her cell phone..soo not allowed in this ward... and recorded a book while I was trying to read. It is hard when the rooms are in constant patient rotation to choose your next door neighbour.

I have been a good girl this time and have been taking my ibuprofen and have added claritin into the mix as well as this seems to help people with the muscle/joint pain...but I will let you know on that one as I don't seem to have this until I have the neulasta..which I just had injected so tomorrow will tell the tale of how well this cockatil worked this time.

I have also been concentrating on drinking lots of cold liquid in hopes of minimizing the swelling and loss of taste this time round, but again...only time will tell on this one. So while I wait I am eating yummy stuff in case I have 4 days of watermelon and smoothies. At least that is my rationale...screw the scale.