Last Week...

It's been quite the week for me...I did get to experience the Taxol bone pain and it was no fun. Pain is not cool...and when I finally figured out the pills to take to make it a little better they knocked me out and then made me sick to my stomach. So much for Taxol being an "easy" chemo. I guess when it comes right down to it poison is still poison! But it seems like it should be a little easier than this. Combine that with me falling down a few stairs at our house (which ironically made me feel sore again!) and you have my week in a nutshell. The good news is mom is arriving here in moments for TWO WEEKS...I can't wait and the neither can the rest of my family.

Here's to having someone else there to help with everything but more importantly to take our minds off what we are going through right now. 

Taxol

Well yesterday was Chemo #5 and my first Taxol treatment. I have one observation...I do not do well on that much Benadryl! They give you a bag of benadryl dripped into your system before they start the Taxol to help alleviate any weird allergic reactions. But that much Benadryl made me feel like I had just consumed a half bottle of tequila. I seriously almost fell over trying to stand up! So that combined with 3 hours of weird meds being dripped into your body made for a long, tiring day. I also learned I shouldn't be allowed to cook dinner after Taxol treatments. I tried to cook three simple things for dinner rice, green beans, chicken tenders...and ruined all of them. Kyle and I ate the chicken but it wasn't very good at all. So from now on no cooking after these meds! So far mytaste buds have gone wacky again and I have had a little bit of numbness coming & going in my hands but no bone aches yet so that's good.

Now if only I can get some sleep tonight since they make you take 10 steroid pills in 12 hours before this type of chemo I was WIDE awake last night and I am paying for it today.