12.6.22

Today I am officially off of my restrictions!!!! WAHOO!!! I thought about burning my compression bra in celebration, but there’s a good chance that I will need that after my reconstruction surgery… so that will have to wait for now. 🤣

My 2nd round of chemo was fairly similar to the first round. I didn’t have any new symptoms. The kids were sick that first whole week and surprisingly, I did pretty good. (I shouldn’t even say it that way. I know it’s from being lifted in prayer). In fact on Tuesday, the day after my treatment I was wired! I was up before 5am and still going strong at 10:30pm! Aaron said my new nick name was going to be “Chatty Kathy”. haha! I did end up napping Wednesday though! And as the week went on I could definitely tell I was getting more tired in the evenings. By Saturday the kids were finally feeling pretty good! That’s the day I crashed. I took THREE 2hr naps!!! And I still slept through the night! Now that I’m on the 2nd week after chemo I can tell my energy is coming back! I’m definitely more peppy and feeling more like myself.

There wasn’t a lot that happened this last week, especially since the kids were sick most of it. Aaron and I still haven’t gotten whatever they had! How many days do you wait until you feel safe enough to say, “Yep, we didn’t get it!”?

So thank you for praying that Aaron and I wouldn’t get sick!

We finally got our deer taken care of on Saturday. I was able to help with the trimming part, but wasn’t much help after that. Thankfully the kids like helping with grinding the meat. They divided and conquered. It definitely feels good to have that done! And now that I have more energy I’m finally starting to decorate for Christmas. (We’ll get our tree next week after we get back from Iowa.) It’s nice when things start feeling normal again.

I am still getting used to my new look. I wear a hat/scarf most of the time. (Your head gets a little cold when you aren’t used to having no hair!) It’s funny, I’ll be walking around the house and feel like I have my hair towel from after a shower on my head and think “Oh I have to get that off and dry my hair before it gets all wonky!” and then remember I don’t have hair to get wonky! Haha. It’s still falling out like crazy! You just don’t notice it as much since it’s shorter. (Anther reason for wearing something on my head… at least the hair stays trapped in that vs falling everywhere in the house!) Pretty sure Aaron isn’t minding this “stage”. It’s hard to tell the difference between my hair falling out and his beard trimmings… Now, I can’t just blame him for the short hair in the sink! Haha. Here’s another little tidbit for you. If a kid tells you it hurts when you rub their buzz cut. They aren’t lying! 🤣 And maybe it’s just the chemo making my head super sensitive. Even wearing a hat can hurt at times! It feels like someone is pulling my hair. 😬 As much as I don’t want to loose my hair, I will be looking forward to being bald for that reason. Hopefully then it won’t feel like someone is pinching and pulling my hair.

I realized I didn’t take any official pictures of me the day we cut my hair. I figured I better do that before I completely lost it. You can already see it’s getting thinner on the sides!