Laura's Journey. . .

Its a beautiful day in the neighborhood

Yesterday was double whammy day, I had Herceptin number 4, I have 10 more to go, and radiation, I have 10 more of those to go!  Difference is, Herceptin is once every 3 weeks, and radiation is daily, Monday through Friday.  So I shall be done with radiation wayyyyy before I’m done with Herceptin; May 7th is my last zap, HALLEUIAH! :D  Whereas, Herceptin, I’ll be done with in November

Thinking about how much longer I have to go, and how long I have been in cancer treatments (since August 07, but been dealing with since July), made me kind of sad.  It wasn’t depression, it was sadness.  Sad that I even had to deal with cancer, sad because my quality of life has dropped, sad because because of all these cancer treatments.  Oh well, what can I say?  I’m sure I’ll feel these bouts of sadness for some time to come. *sigh*

I was at Oncology for almost 3 hours yesterday, they were swamped, NOW that is sad!  It is sad that there are so many of us needing chemotherapy, I don’t know how the Oncology staff and Dr. M, stay so caring and kind with seeing all of us cancer patients…  I don’t remember who said this to me the other day, but someone said that helping folks deal with cancer, that there is no higher calling, and I agree.  It is amazing with what the Oncology staff do to make sure we are all taken care of.

Then I spent an hour and a half at radiation, dang!  What a long day it was!  I had to do my radiation treatment, then get set-up for my “booster” series (will post more on that on my radiation page), and then have my doctor’s visit.  My skin is becoming a tender vittle, and I had to get this creme, Silver Sulfadiazine, it is a creme for burns.  Can we talk about putting out the fire?

Radiation has been a piece of cake really, I’m just a little tender, the thing that starts to get to you though, is the going every day.  Sometimes I just want to call in sick LOL

It is one foot in front of the other…