Happy day at her office. A day to share my thoughts with my Doctor

I really haven't been ignoring my blog.  I would never purposely do that.  This is my story on my cancer road, and it is a beautiful ride right now, but not a lot is happening which is incredible!

I saw my oncologist last week.  I had "Lucy" flushed and blood drawn through her.  Everything looked good. I feel good and I don't feel I have anything wrong with me, especially any type of cancer.  I only still have itching, and we addressed it.  I now am tripling my medication.   She asked me if it made me feel sedated.  I have gotten sleepy in the afternoon after I doubled it but didn't realized it was that medication.

After we addressed the itching, I told her I needed to talk to her.  We looked each other in the eyes and I told her that God sent her to me and me to her.  She smiled her wonderful smile that I have so grown to love.  She didn't quite know what to say. I think it made her happy.  I started to cry, and with a lump in my throat I couldn't say anything more.  Kim finished what I had begun and told her that since it was a month of Thanksgiving, that I had wanted to thank her for everything she had done for me.  I will have a CT scan again between Christmas and New Years is what she said.  Then I will see her January 6th!

My first day tripling my medication for itching, I felt like a zombie.  I really felt sedated and like I couldn't drive or anything.  I was tripling it three times a day.  I realized that I can't triple it at work or away from home.

On the way home from her office, I recalled the first several weeks into my cancer and remembered how sick I used to get and how sometimes I would be right down in bed a few hours or half a day.  I remembered the many things it was doing to me to make me so uncomfortable.  Now....I feel great!  I asked Kim  what has happened that I don't ever feel like that anymore?  I feel totally normal.  He said simply, " it's all the prayers given for you". I smiled and realized how correct he was and how my life has changed for the better.  If my cancer is playing havoc in me, I sure don't feel it.  I sure hope it isn't doing that.

I went and got a foot zoning Friday, and when I went in, one of the first questions she asked me was if I was still taking chemo.  I told her no, not for two months.  She said she could tell I wasn't.  I asked her how and she said that I didn't have a black color surrounding me that chemo brings.  Wow.  I didn't know that.

Well, I am playing the waiting game till the end of the year, and loving life and feeling totally normal.   Thank you again to you all for caring about me!  I love you all.

Happy Thanksgiving!

20,000 views, Itching, swollen ankles and hair growing back, finally.

Well, this blog just went over 20,000 views!!!  I can't comprehend that at all.  I don't get it, but here I go with another post.

So far, doubling up with my med for itching, has worked well, but I still itch enough that I have scratch marks all over my body still.  Some pretty bad ones on my back.  I will have to talk to her next time I see her about this. 

By doubling my medication for itching, it didn't come with out a cost.  My ankles balloon up and my knees and legs (not as bad as my ankles) also get swollen.  I am quite bothered by it and have to keep putting my legs up to help them go down a little.  In the mornings they are fine.  My doctor gave me a water pill and potassium to take to help the swelling to go down which really works good...

My body hair is coming back!  I am getting eyebrows back and eyelashes and with that comes leg hair and etc.  (I didn't miss not having the rest).  With that said, that must mean that where I lost head hair, it must be growing back also, so hopefully I will have my  thick head of hair back.  Unfortunately it isn't the same hair I lost, since it is soooooooo curly.  I mean corkscrew curly. and absolutely no way to fix it that I know of except just gel it and let it do it's thing.  But I do have hair.  I am thankful for not being bald anymore.

I am so happy for the next two Holiday months!!  Yay!  I am pretty much done Christmas shopping.  I want to wrap presents!!