I actually do feel smokin hot! Literally and physically. I got through the hot flashes caused by the chemo and I got respite for a couple weeks. Now that I'm poppin the five year pill, the hot flashes are back. Night sweats too. I never realize what the night sweats are until I get the hot flashes. It's cold, I'm cold, and then all of a sudden, I'm burning up hot. What fun! My hair is thinking up, but it's still bone straight. No curls to be seen at all. That's probably a good thing for now or I'd look like a puff ball or something. My radiated skin is healing, I only had skin break down for a couple of days and then only a very small spot under my arm. It is peeling like crazy all over though and getting my clothes quite dirty! I stopped using the Aloe and started using coco butter, it is more moisturizing in my opinion. One month and counting till my cruise. Man oh man I can't wait to vacate. I have a lot of work to do before I leave and will have a lot of work to do after I return, but for now, I'm just focused on getting a break. Sail the high seas, bask in the glory that is the sun and lay on a couple beaches here and there.
I've been worrying my pretty little head off anytime I'm at home and have a chance to think. The house may have termites, I have 11 months of cleaning to catch up on and I can't seem to catch up. People at my job are driving me crazy worrying about lay offs. I probably should be worrying about that too, but I just have entirely too much to do at work to worry about things like that. I'm just there to do my job, like I was hired to do. I am thinking on taking belly dancing classes or salsa lessons. I will sign up for one of the two upon my return from the high seas. I'll probably end up doing both, since both are things I would like to be able to do.
Today is a Sunday, I got herceptin on Friday, and I feel like I've been hit by a small truck. Maybe a U-Haul size instead of the Mac that used to hit me when I was on the chemo too. It was liked this the last time I got herceptin. I didn't realize it before because I was hyped up on so many drugs, it was hard to tell which one was doing what to me. Now I can usually pick the culprit. I'm still a walking pharmacy. I'm taking Lyrica for neuropathy, which is getting better, but still bad; Tamoxifen as part of my treatment; Ambien to sleep; Ibuprofin or tylenol for pain; I use the nail stuff for my lovely fungus; vitamins to help keep me balanced since my appetite doesn't allow me to eat everything I probably need to eat; and I still have all the bottles from most of the other pills I've been on for the past almost year. I'll be glad when I'm just taking the five year pill and my vitamins. I'm gonna hop in the bath tub today and see how that goes. I think I'll give it one more week before I go get back in the pool, but after that, I'm all in. Back to the gym, on to the Abs Plus class, and swimming up a storm. I may take myself to the black circus next weekend. I think it'll be entertaining. I let cirque de sole move on without making it. Man, I can't believe I missed it. Oh well, next time. Or next time I'm in Vegas.
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