Fatigue....Nausea....and Hair Thinning.....

Me I’ve had some pain in my left side and some rectal bleeding on and off so I have an apt. with the Gastroenterologist doctor on Monday. I also feel like I’m really swollen retaining water in my feet and legs. So I’m trying to be up and moving more and drinking more water. This is the most I’ve ever weighed in my whole life, argh! I see the Chemo doctor again this week so that means I’m starting my 3^rd round/7^th week. I seem to be getting tired more easily. If I can go lay down for a bit then I’m good again for a while. The nausea seems to hit the 2^nd day and into the 3^rd on a one med week, then I seem to do ok. I hate being nauseated though… I haven’t lost my hair yet but it’s still thinning. The texture of my hair is changing, it feels coarser. If I’m not sick I’m usually studying trying to make sure I absorb everything for the test next week. I feel like I have to pause or reflect a little bit more on things like; when I write or read. I guess the chemo fog is starting to set in. It’s a good thing I’m writing in my blog so I can actually remember things.

Six Week Post Op with the OB Oncologist, Discovering Resources at the college.....

       I had my 6 week post op apt with the OB Oncologist (the one who did my last surgery on the staging 

of my cancer). He said everything looked good he would just follow me for a while. So I go back in four months, 6 weeks after I’m done with the chemo. I had some rectal bleeding that I mentioned to him. It comes and goes. He said you could have internal hemorrhoids, so he thinks that is what it might be. He wants me to have a colonoscopy done sooner than later though. So we’re trying to get that arranged.              

       Because I was so sick last week (a (2) medicine week) I didn’t take my Pharmacology test until Monday, well actually Tuesday. After chemo on Monday I went to take it but they wanted me to have enough time so I had to come back on Tuesday. Then Wednesday I went back and took my Pharmacology Math test (I got a 92 so I don’t have to take it again, yeah!). By this time I was exhausted! Partly my own fault because I stayed up late studying and then the chemo makes me really tired. Later that night a good friend from highschool texted me and wanted to stop by so she did. Joylynn Clark and I sat and talked for a while catching up. It was so nice!  I made some phone calls and took a nap. Courtney came by with the girls and we visited while Chris was at the Stake court of honor up at Snyder Mill. 

       I met with the DRC (Disability Resource Center) and they gave me extra test time, a chair for class, a smart pen which I haven’t used yet and a handicapped parking pass. When I got the paper signed by my teacher today she said if it gets to be too much (school) then there are options; a medical leave of absence, an incomplete etc. I told her I’ve waited so long to get into the program and now all of this, that I just want to keep plugging along if I can. She said she just wanted me to be aware that were options because of what I was dealing with. I am so being watched over!!! 

       I heard from the genetics counselor and my cancer is not from being genetic woo-hooo!They don’t know why. But that means my family posterity won’t get it from me. I do have one mutant gene for colon cancer but you have to have two mutant genes; one from each parent so there’s no way genetically I can get colon cancer. The only way my kids can get colon cancer genetically is, if Dad carry’s a mutant colon cancer gene as well. That is if they did get one from me.