Nurses Pictures
Friday I woke up crazy early 5:30 and decided to get all my errands done before lunch so I could come home and take a nap…the first order of business was getting the dogs nails clipped, I have tried doing it myself and am horrible, it was SO worth the five dollars! Little Bit did not yelp once…my next stop was the cancer center to get some photos of the nurses and staff for my scrapbook…I realized I had almost none and it wouldn’t be a cancer scrapbook without them!
they were such a support to me, I can’t even put it into words…
then I went to return a few things to Wal-Mart, went to staples, Walgreen’s to pick up pictures, ben franklin (kind of a craft store, for some scrapbooking adhesive squares) met mom for lunch at a Noble Romans, got some dog food, and came home for a long nap…I’d call it a pretty good day
all this week the area where I received radiation has been red, itchy and rash-like (a lot of little bumps that kind of blend in with the redness…and when I scratch it feels so raw and kinda hurts…I am not sure there is anything I can do about it, and I sure don’t know what could have caused it…when I was in one of the antique stores I heard the owner talking to someone about her husband who had radiation last May…I asked her a few questions and she said that her husbands skin is still very sensitive, he does not shave anymore because it hurts…also she makes him turtle neck things to wear in the summer so the sun doesn’t get to the skin…these are things I did not think about…I guess when the sun decides to again be a regular contributor to our days I will have to be careful…
also this week I have had the pleasure of back and right hip pain…coupled with how lethargic I’ve felt I should not have been surprised to have started my period today…it has only been 20 days since my last one so it seems I am still really off schedule…I would much rather them be farther apart and irregular than closer together and irregular…it is like I don’t get much time to recover before starting symptoms again…I did a little google search and found nothing about getting your period more frequently after chemotherapy but it did say that the sooner it comes back post-chemo the better the chances that your fertility was not affected…so, I should take that as some good news…NOW I just need to find a boy, get married, and use the womb that may have been spared…
then I went to return a few things to Wal-Mart, went to staples, Walgreen’s to pick up pictures, ben franklin (kind of a craft store, for some scrapbooking adhesive squares) met mom for lunch at a Noble Romans, got some dog food, and came home for a long nap…I’d call it a pretty good day
all this week the area where I received radiation has been red, itchy and rash-like (a lot of little bumps that kind of blend in with the redness…and when I scratch it feels so raw and kinda hurts…I am not sure there is anything I can do about it, and I sure don’t know what could have caused it…when I was in one of the antique stores I heard the owner talking to someone about her husband who had radiation last May…I asked her a few questions and she said that her husbands skin is still very sensitive, he does not shave anymore because it hurts…also she makes him turtle neck things to wear in the summer so the sun doesn’t get to the skin…these are things I did not think about…I guess when the sun decides to again be a regular contributor to our days I will have to be careful…
also this week I have had the pleasure of back and right hip pain…coupled with how lethargic I’ve felt I should not have been surprised to have started my period today…it has only been 20 days since my last one so it seems I am still really off schedule…I would much rather them be farther apart and irregular than closer together and irregular…it is like I don’t get much time to recover before starting symptoms again…I did a little google search and found nothing about getting your period more frequently after chemotherapy but it did say that the sooner it comes back post-chemo the better the chances that your fertility was not affected…so, I should take that as some good news…NOW I just need to find a boy, get married, and use the womb that may have been spared…
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