I was awake at 5:30 this morning after heading to bed a little after 8 last night. I did take a Lunesta to make sure I didn’t wake in the middle of the night and stay awake from the steroids. No aches in my upper back, no feeling like I could go back to sleep. So far, so good.
As I normally do in the early mornings, I took the time to clean out emails, relaxed on the sofa and watched the morning news before I headed out to feed the Toothless Wonder cat. He took his time eating this morning, so I was a little late getting back inside since we had to leave about 10:30 to get me to my acupuncture appointment.
I ate my breakfast and then got ready to go and was ready in just the nick of time. At this point I was still feeling fairly “normal”. Homa asked me how I was doing and we discussed I how I was feeling my normal energy levels, the neuropathy was at a minimum, my digestion is still slow. Food sits in my stomach for a longer time and I have a constant battle with GERD despite taking Prilosec every morning and Zantac every night. Homa then placed her needles and I proceeded to start my meditation, which lately leads to falling asleep. Today I was actually able to meditate for a bit before dropping into a light nap for a bit. I woke up again and continued to meditate before Homa returned to remove the needles.
We did have to stop by Cancer Care as yesterday I forgot my knitting kit bag in the infusion room. It’s a little zippered bag that holds my tape measure, scissors, stitch holders, needle gauges, etc. I left it on the side table next to my infusion chair I was sitting in. I realized it once we were home a bit yesterday and needed a stitch holder and couldn’t find my bag. I searched through everything twice than called Cancer Care, and sure enough they had it on hold for me. They are so nice there!
We got home and had lunch; I heated up some soup I had picked out from the grocery store. Not bad, still cannot taste things very well. I have made it through the whole afternoon without a nap, but I can feel the tired creeping up on me quickly.
Still no body aches, which at this time last week I was already starting to feel.
I would call today a success with only having Taxol yesterday.
Life is having a little bit more energy
Yay! So happy you have not been kicked in the arse like before. What about the neuropathy? Does that seem any better? Sure hope so. If you are knitting, it must not be as bad as previously experienced. That was my downfall when I was crocheting my one and only project. I could only do a few stitches before I would have to put the work down and wait for my hands to stop hurting and tingling. I wondered if I would live long enough to finish the infinity scarf I was making. Thankfully, I did finish it, wore it to pose for pictures with the other women in the class, and then put it away and forgot about it. Who knows if I’ll ever wear the thing but, at least, I can say I crocheted something that is actually wearable. My hands have forgiven me but they still tingle and go numb on me from time to time. Do you think that is a reminder not to pick up a crochet hook or knitting needles ever again? I truly hope that is not your fate as you do such beautiful work. You really got Nane’s gift of busy hands creating wonderful things. That gene has passed me by. LYTTMAB.