chemo 2nd session FOLFOX
Ugh, this week I'm getting all the side effects. Nausea last night had me wondering if I'd be able to even take the anti-nausea pills in the morning. Every time I got enough bile and saliva in there, up it came again for about 3 hours. I'm blaming the turkey sausages I ate as these are full of assorted additives for flavour and whatever, and very greasy too. So today I'm sticking with clean simple foods and green tea for my caffiene. I woke up able to swallow the pills although it got a bit dicey for the first twenty minutes after. The anti-nausea pill making me nauseous. Yep.
I am feeling really tired today too and my stoma has stopped outputting entirely. Don't get me wrong, I love not changing the bag, but it gets to where random stinging pains go on in my belly as the hard lumps jostle around unpassed. That's because I had to quit drinking water by evening yesterday and couldn't take my assorted pills like for laxatives and stuff. I also didn't take my iron or laxatives this morning, just the really necessary pills, to go easy on my beleaguered stomach.
I went to the park, where they've recently installed a new picnic table, to play my daily round of pokemon go. You get extra points if you play for 7 days in a row, so I walk out to the pokestop and back. It's cold out. I put on a scarf and hat and gloves and parka but my eyes got too cold! I'll have to wear my goggles next time I go out. My eyes are still not recovered. It's weird, they feel half numb or twitchy or something. My hands are also doing weird cramping things like how people with cerebral palsy get, but really mild. It's disconcerting and I stretch them out in response. The hot flashes continue. They're pretty frequent and annoying but as nobody's bothered to research hot flashes I don't know how to combat them except try and keep cool. But I can't keep cool because the flourouracil causes hyper sensitivity to cold! Grrr. I'm wearing that stupid infusor bottle again this week. It hangs off my shoulder day and night being a bumpy thing annoying me. They remove it tomorrow though. Crap, I have phone calls to make now and can't put it off or I'll forget. Gotta call and get the next session appointment shifted because they stuck me in early again. If it was merely inconvenience, like last time, fine, but my stoma is outputting then and that means everyone in the chemo room gets to smell my stink as I empty the bag. If it's not constipated anyway.
I upgraded my fitbit this week. It was supposed to be my christmas present, but the black friday sale meant buying it early and saving $30 and who wouldn't? We also picked up two really fun video drones at walmart because the door-crasher price of $40 was irresistable and they are supposed to have a lot of auto-flight features to make it easier to learn. Is it? No, not much, LOL, and we've both been stupid enough to try and play inside this cramped little home. We've both damaged our props. Dan's are scraped up from the stucco ceiling and I cracked one. I fixed it with crazy glue hoping that'll do so I don't have to use up one of the spare props. It is a cheap thing, really sloppy controls, bad drifting in flight that the trim buttons don't fix, and very low res camera, but for a learner it's awesome. Too bad it's winter... We got some time in on the weekend and maybe we'll get some decent weather again now and then this winter. If it's warmer than -15 and windless I figure we can still play with them. Unless the chemo makes me unable to tolerate the cold.
Oh yeah, I was out there discovering that my gloves are inadequate when I found a couple of used brake pads from the city machines left behind in the grass. Just the act of carrying them over to the picnic table so someone could find them and deal with them appropriately was enough to spark my fingers! It tingled unpleasantly for a quarter hour after getting inside! Cancer is not gentle, nor is the treatment against it. I'd rather put up with all this than have my chest opened to clean out my lungs. I'm praying it whacks those lung spots. Okay, phone calls to be made.
I am feeling really tired today too and my stoma has stopped outputting entirely. Don't get me wrong, I love not changing the bag, but it gets to where random stinging pains go on in my belly as the hard lumps jostle around unpassed. That's because I had to quit drinking water by evening yesterday and couldn't take my assorted pills like for laxatives and stuff. I also didn't take my iron or laxatives this morning, just the really necessary pills, to go easy on my beleaguered stomach.
I went to the park, where they've recently installed a new picnic table, to play my daily round of pokemon go. You get extra points if you play for 7 days in a row, so I walk out to the pokestop and back. It's cold out. I put on a scarf and hat and gloves and parka but my eyes got too cold! I'll have to wear my goggles next time I go out. My eyes are still not recovered. It's weird, they feel half numb or twitchy or something. My hands are also doing weird cramping things like how people with cerebral palsy get, but really mild. It's disconcerting and I stretch them out in response. The hot flashes continue. They're pretty frequent and annoying but as nobody's bothered to research hot flashes I don't know how to combat them except try and keep cool. But I can't keep cool because the flourouracil causes hyper sensitivity to cold! Grrr. I'm wearing that stupid infusor bottle again this week. It hangs off my shoulder day and night being a bumpy thing annoying me. They remove it tomorrow though. Crap, I have phone calls to make now and can't put it off or I'll forget. Gotta call and get the next session appointment shifted because they stuck me in early again. If it was merely inconvenience, like last time, fine, but my stoma is outputting then and that means everyone in the chemo room gets to smell my stink as I empty the bag. If it's not constipated anyway.
I upgraded my fitbit this week. It was supposed to be my christmas present, but the black friday sale meant buying it early and saving $30 and who wouldn't? We also picked up two really fun video drones at walmart because the door-crasher price of $40 was irresistable and they are supposed to have a lot of auto-flight features to make it easier to learn. Is it? No, not much, LOL, and we've both been stupid enough to try and play inside this cramped little home. We've both damaged our props. Dan's are scraped up from the stucco ceiling and I cracked one. I fixed it with crazy glue hoping that'll do so I don't have to use up one of the spare props. It is a cheap thing, really sloppy controls, bad drifting in flight that the trim buttons don't fix, and very low res camera, but for a learner it's awesome. Too bad it's winter... We got some time in on the weekend and maybe we'll get some decent weather again now and then this winter. If it's warmer than -15 and windless I figure we can still play with them. Unless the chemo makes me unable to tolerate the cold.
Oh yeah, I was out there discovering that my gloves are inadequate when I found a couple of used brake pads from the city machines left behind in the grass. Just the act of carrying them over to the picnic table so someone could find them and deal with them appropriately was enough to spark my fingers! It tingled unpleasantly for a quarter hour after getting inside! Cancer is not gentle, nor is the treatment against it. I'd rather put up with all this than have my chest opened to clean out my lungs. I'm praying it whacks those lung spots. Okay, phone calls to be made.