The Best Laid Plans
Today, I'm exactly 12 weeks from surgery and six weeks from starting chemo. I've put my chemo schedule in my planner in brightly colored markers. Aaaaaand, I have to cross it out. Everything is being pushed back a week. (Its nothing to be alarmed about - in fact, my oncologist giddily encouraged me to enjoy my week off.) One of the things I've experienced about going through treatment is that there is so much going on, so many moving parts, so many procedures and appointments and medications that its like a complicated marble track where you are chugging along in one direction but a little switch appears out of nowhere that sends you off in a different direction. Overall, I've been fortunate to enter cancer treatment (relatively) young, strong and otherwise healthy. My providers are proactive and efficient in treating. I've recovered well from surgery and I am tolerating the side effects of chemotherapy well. The biggest challenge I have been facing is my darn se...