Steroids!!!!!!!!
Yay, here I am at the end of my second four week chemo cycle. I can now think clearly, I don't look like elephant woman, I can sleep and food is tasting better. I'm not complaining, it's a lot better than spewing day after day but what strange things the steriods & chemo does to us. I'm guessing it's fluid retention causing all these strange things but even my doc hasn't confirmed that. The first time I took a steroid and couldn't sleep I was rather distressed because I had to drive 130kms the next day to my treatment on no sleep but...........I was rocking the next day! What is this drug??? The next night I decided not to waste another moment counting sheep and got heaps of 'fun' stuff done. Digital scrapbooking till the eyes can't take it anymore!!!!! Then maybe I will do some housework. How funny is it when you email a friend at 4-30am in the morning, what a response I got :-) Never in my life have I missed out on important sleep and not had to pay for it days later, craziest drug, why would people take it voluntarily? I love my food and everything tastes like chicken broth.......everything........we had the hottest snags the other night, I had no idea what I was feeding everyone, they tasted pretty good to me but when the water tank was just about drained and the faces around me were burning I knew i had discovered a very hot spicy sausage :-) needless to say I finished my meal whilst all around me struggled a lot.
But, now I get 2 weeks off and hopefully the face won't sag too much before it goes back into shape and food will start to taste better and I will enjoy the bubbles in a drink again and I won't have my 'precious moments' on Saturdays and Sundays like I seem to get (lucky the family are familiar with these times now) but again.....I am thankful that I can still function day to day normally and am not laying at home having to rest because I am feeling sick and tired.
And.......I still have my hair!!!!! On my head. The icecaps are working!!!!!!