Laura’s Journey. . .

You know, all these cancer treatments have put me out of touch with my body…  I never know whether a pain I am feeling is leftover from chemo-drugs, or if I am experiencing flu-like symptoms from the Herceptin, or if it is a real physical pain that I need to pay attention to.

I had Herceptin last Wednesday and by the next day I had all these muscle aches which makes me move so slowwww, but I keep moving and try to work the pain out.  When I was on chemo, the body pain was more pronounced, and now on Herceptin I seem to have body/muscle aches which lasts about 3 days afterwards.

Any who’s, on Friday I fell because of the dang snow (we got about 2 feet ), slipped twice and caught myself, which meant I had arms and legs flying everywhere, but because I was already hurting, I didn’t think of nothing of the pain I was feeling.

When I woke up on Saturday I ached so bad, and I thought, well this must be the Herceptin, so I forced myself to get up and shovel.  WHAT A HUGE MISTAKE THAT WAS!  Right afterwards, I couldn’t sit, stand, or lay down, my left thigh and hip was in excruciating pain!!!  I was poppin pills all day for pain, and all I could do was lay down, get up, lay down, get up and cry.  It was a miserable state of affairs

This is what I mean by being out of touch with my body, I have known so much pain these last few months that I now doubt what is “real” pain, as opposed to “drug-induced” pain, and when should I back down or get help, and when should I just try to ride it out because it is a side-effect of the cancer drugs… Jiminy, I have to get back in touch with my poor body before I hurt myself seriously…  Today I am doing better and walking with a cane; what a hard lesson to learn!

Today also starts the countdown!  I only have 10 days left of radiation treatments!  Halleuiah!

The last 7 treatments will be “booster” treatments, that is where they concentrate the treatment to the scar/tumor area and not the whole breast, which they have been doing for the last 25 treatments.  This is to help wipe out any lingering cancer cells in the area.  Hard to believe that I have already had 25 radiation treatments, the time is flying so fast!

Holy moly, one less thing to worry about in 10 DAYS!  I shall miss D & S, two of the radiation nurses, they were so kind and SO DANG FUNNY!  But I will will not miss radiation treatments, as I told D & S, the service was excellent, but the venue sucked! LOL

As I put one hobbled foot (leg) in front of the other my friends…