My life changed dramatically on Mother's Day 2013. Three days later I was diagnosed with cancer from my physician. This blog was made to keep my family and friends informed to what has been happening to me the past few weeks. When I find out news from different Doctor's through all of the procedures I have had, so many of you have wanted me to text, email, call, or someway contact you. It humbles me how many of you are concerned. Sometimes I forget to contact some of you. This way, you can stay in touch with what is happening now. Please feel free to comment. I hope I have it set up so you can. If not, I will ask Emily my daughter to help me, since she helped me get this set up.

Friday, November 7, 2014

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!!

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