I am feeling much, much better; but still not 100 percent. This was by far the hardest cycle of chemo to go through. I got sicker then I ever have before. I can't tell you how glad I am that I have a month to recover before I have to go back and get more treatment.
Once I get back, I'll do one treatment and then go in for cat scans and MRI's to determine how the treatment is affecting the tumors. The pain in my ass is pretty much gone now, although I still feel it a little at the end of the day, but nowhere near what it was like previously where I couldn't even sit down or stand up without feeling pain. I suppose that means the treatment is working, but we'll see.
I have to tell you my (mis)adventures with medical marijuana : ) As you may know, I qualify as a cancer patient to buy pot legally and use it to relieve my pain and my chemo symptoms. My oncologist suggested I try it because many of my chemo symptoms (nausea, fatigue, loss of sensation in hands and feet, nerve damage, etc.) supposedly can be dealt with by the use of marijuana. On Monday after my chemo, my doctor and I had a frank conversation about how to use it and what he recommended. I then went over to one of the local "buyers cooperative" to purchase my "medicine." I bought some edible marijuana as that was recommended by both my doctor and the sellers (I have no experience smoking pot and in any case with my asthma I couldn't do it anyway). The marijuana came in the form of cookies and a brownie. It cost me about $20. I took half a cookie when I got home, on an empty stomach. Well, I got sick as a dog!! I mean, I barfed all over the place, and I was stoned too, so I couldn't even stand up : ) That was my first and last adventure with medical marijuana. Apparently my system is not set up for that sort of thing...
I've heard wonderful things about marijuana and how it relieved many people's symptoms when nothing else would. It doesn't do that for me : )
More later.
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