New Harmone Pill

I saw my regular oncologist this past week.  I haven't seen her since before I started radiation. 

I stopped the old harmone pill, and started a new one.  This one has a few side effects that I don't like, one being that I could start having hot flashes again. Really?  I only had them for 20 years is all!!!!!  But, maybe this is the winner!  If so, bring them on for 20 more years!!!

When I am in my doctor's office, she has me lie down and she presses on the parts of my abdomen where  the tumors are.  Usually, I am not "that" sensitive and I can take the soft pressure.  NOT TODAY!  No matter where she softly pressed, it was very uncomfortable/painful.  She said she thinks the tumors are inflamed from the radiation and that is why they are so tender.  I hope so also.  It sure was different from normal.

My itching is, I would say, 75% better than before radiation.  She and I both think that one of the tumors was causing the itching, and since it is shrinking, the itching has cut back hugely!  That was one of my worst side effects of cancer.  The insane itching!!!  Yay!  Such improvement. 

After listening to General Conference this past Easter weekend, I realize again, God's hand in my life.  I know I am a name, an individual, and his daughter.  I know that the trials I have experienced in my life, have been for a very good reason.  To give me character. To give me empathy for others, and to learn patience, along with other things.  I just hope that I am learning the things from trials that I am supposed to learn and not being a whiner.  Some days I feel like a "whiner-forty-niner!"  Especially the last couple of weeks with some minor surgery and getting a sinus infection on top of the inflamed cancer.  I didn't know which thing felt worse.  Today, I started an anti-biotic and I am hoping to be feeling on the mend, with that and having my stitches taken out.  Life is going to get better soon.