An Update: Chemo, Drugs, MRI’s, CT Scans, and Feeling Better

(I’m sorry, this photo has nothing to do with my post…but I stumbled across it and it’s absolutely awesome. Couldn’t pass up including it)

Well the last week wasn’t too bad now was it? I just finished my fourth round five days on 28 days off chemo treatments and it went swimmingly well (all things considered). It has been a strange month following my previous miserable bout of chemo, back pain, infection, etc. Physically I’ve felt really well (the best I’ve felt in a while), I’ve had pretty good energy, and only the expected amount of back and leg pain. Of course I still feel like I’ve been missing out on life in incredible ways as it’s been the holiday season, back to school season, my sister and her family have been in town, and there’s just been some important catchup with the fam to focus on. Tomorrow or the next day should be my last days feeling the effects of my last set of chemo pills and, like I said, it’s been a great round. I had headaches, body aches, sleepiness, and some weird hot flash kind of stuff but at no point was I down for the count. At no point was I miserable beyond belief. At virtually no point was I unable to fake that I felt fine (insert winking emoticon here).

On Monday I went in for a head to tail MRI session. It was a little sooner than I had anticipated having it done considering it was only a month ago that I had an emergency MRI done on my tumor. But it’s good to get another session out of the way and in about two weeks I’ll meet with my oncologist to discover that it probably won’t tell us much more than what we already know! (lets be realistic here huh?)

I’m looking forward to scheduling a CAT scan sometime in the next two weeks to confirm that my lungs have recovered from the pulmonary embolism from six months ago. If they have recovered (and all signs point to the fact that they have) then I can get off these nasty blood thinners once and for all! It’ll be one more gnarly drug that my body can be free of as it seeks to function in a healthy, holistic, and eventually cancer free (positive thinking right?) way.

So there’s the update. Thank you everyone for your love and concern.

peace.

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