12.29.22

Hi everyone! We are officially done with one of my chemo treatments!! It feels so good to mark that one one off of the list! So far things have been going about the same as the last three. We were done with treatment around 12ish yesterday. By 5pm I was ready for a nap. I crashed on the couch from 7-11 then got up and went to bed around midnight. It is crazy how fatigued you get with treatments. haha. I feel like my chemo updates are a little boring at the moment. However I’ll take boring over dramatic any day! 😉 I’m so thankful that things are going as well as they are. I asked the nurse the same question yesterday that I did at my infusion treatment two weeks ago… she had the same opinion. This particular chemo treatment tends to be harder on patients than the one I’m doing next.

My next chemo treatment is schedule for January 11. That will be my new one. You can be in prayer that that one will go as well as this first one has. I’m nervous about drug reactions (I haven’t had issues before but it’s still on my mind) and then the neuropathy side effect. I have ice packs that I will be using during treatment to help mitigate that. At my physical therapy session today we did some baseline measurements on me: checking my balance and grip strength. The physical therapy I’ve been doing so far has been more for my surgery it includes stretching exercises and massaging my arm and shoulder. I did sign up for a physical therapy program to help with the neuropathy side effect. So I’m curious what that will look like… but I want to do everything I can to help with all of those issues!

I hope you guys all had a wonderful Christmas! We did here. It was a nice and quiet one. We went to our church’s candle light service Christmas Eve, then we had our church service Christmas day, came home for a lighter lunch, opened presents and then had our big Christmas dinner. They talk about chemo brain being a thing… not sure how fast that kicks in haha. But I’m thinking pretty fast.. or at least that’s what I’m going to blame it on! Because for the longest time I said no. Not while we lived in town. We have too many neighbors with dogs… And then my sister showed me these puppies that would be ready close to Christmas when we were in Iowa over Thanksgiving… Aaannnddd we got a puppy! His name is Tucker. He’s mostly lab with a little poodle. (His dad is a registered lab, his mom is a labradoodle.) He is loved by all. Except for maybe Madi.. She is stuck on the couch like the floor is lava 🤣 she is getting better but that first day was hilarious to watch! Apparently I like a challenge because dealing with chemo treatments and homeschooling the kids just wasn’t enough… we decided to add getting a puppy to the mix! 🤣🙂 Things are going really well though. I think he is adjusting nicely!