Entering Hibernation #4

I certainly hope no one has been holding their breath waiting for news on how Chemo #4 went. No news is good news? I get horribly distracted and forget to write. I apologize. Chemo #4 went very smoothly. My mom, my daughter, and my husband were all with me and we had a great time visiting while cancer killing drugs were merrily being dripped into my system.

I think “slammed” is a good word to describe what happens after those drugs begin moving around in your body. I walk slower, I sleep more, I don’t want to eat, water tastes funny. I ran a fever again on Sunday from the Neulasta shot which sent me to the doctor on Monday just to make sure it wasn’t something else.

So, I am entering Nadir period #4, fondly nicknamed hibernation. I am giving myself a few extra hours though to do some Christmas shopping this morning, then it’s stay at home until next Thursday. I’ve decided to spend my days studying, blogging, and making Christmas candy.

My blogging goal is to write through each of the points on the Don’t Waste Your Cancer article that we posted early in this journey. I started journaling through it probably in August or September but stopped at #4 which says something like, “think about death”. Hum, guess I know why I stopped there. So, not promising I will get through all the points in 7 days but will try.

Could I invite you to take this journey with me? To share your thoughts on the points as they pertain to whatever hardship you might be facing right now? Don’t waste your unemployment? Don’t waste your knee injury? Don’t waste your economic downturn? Don’t waste your spouse’s cancer, illness, hardship? Would enjoy hearing from you.

Merry Christmas,

jane