*For a Chemo Patient
Its been a month since I updated Facebook and two months since I updated the blog. TLDR: I'm doing well.* *For a chemo patient. **In December. My side effects from treatment are manageable - but they are there. The biggest challenges I have faced are not directly related to cancer treatment, but cancer treatment makes them more difficult. I'm now in the home stretch for chemo - only ONE more treatment to go!! 🎉🥳 But that also means that the biggest effect from ongoing treatment - fatigue - has built up. My oncologist tells me my bloodwork looks "great!" But the asterisk applies - it looks great for a chemo patient. My white blood cells are borderline and my red blood cells are low. Not low enough to require any intervention and not low enough to affect my treatment plan, just low enough to make me sleep more than I ever have in my adult life. And low enough for me to get the mother of all colds that knocked me back for about a month. And its the winter. Its dark ...