Three down, one to go.....on this regimen......

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.  – Dwight D. Eisenhower

Okay, well I thought I would be back on here in a day or two, but alas, several days have elapsed.  Chemo #3 went off without a hitch on Friday, although I felt wiped out at various times throughout the weekend.  Took many a nap over the weekend.  This morning I had my Neulasta injection, which is never a fun experience – it’s a painful injection as far as injections go.  And then it totally wipes me out.  I just woke up from a 2½ hour nap! 

BUT that’s three down and one to go with the A/C and Neulasta regimen!  Yay!  There is a light at the end of the tunnel.  I’m not looking forward to the next regimen, although I’ve been told it is much milder than what I’m doing now.  The biggest “bump in the road” will be that it will be weekly instead of every 3 weeks, so scheduling/timing alone will be a bit tough.  But ya gotta do what ya gotta do! 

We meet with the radiation oncologist on Wednesday morning to see when that will start and what will be involved, etc.  We may move to a different campground because the radiation will be every day (M-F) for 6 weeks, from what we understand.  Talk about scheduling/timing constraints!  That’s going to be rough.  Right now we’re located about 40 minutes (one way) from the radiation machine, so that’s 80 minutes per day just in travel time alone.  It’ll be rough trying to get my work done AND do the traveling, the radiation, the chemotherapy, etc.  Well, we’ll have a better idea of what to expect after we meet with the radiation oncologist, so I’ll quit speculating until then.

Ya know, I forgot to mention a little tidbit about my Texas trip with Nancy – other than it was a fabulous week(!) and I was so sad to see it end – but I think I mentioned that!  I was really a bit nervous about flying with a compromised immune system – you know, all the germy people in airplanes and airports, etc.  Nancy told me that her hairdresser rubs Neosporin around her nostrils before she flies and never gets sick.  Another one of those “worth-a-try” things.  So I liberally applied Neosporin to the nostrils, and I took an Airborne before getting on the plane, and I felt fantastic the whole time! 

Well, I think I’d better go chop up some veggies for dinner.  Kenny is outside waxing the RV – he has been trying to finish one side of it now for about 3 weeks, but the lovebugs have been SOOOOO bad lately, that he couldn’t get it done.  For those of you who don’t live in Florida, count your lucky stars that you don’t have to deal with lovebugs!  OMG!  What a nuisance they are.  Just google Florida lovebugs and see what you’re missing!  Sometimes it feels like you’re driving through a blinding black blizzard!

HUGS TO EVERYBODY!  And, as always, thank you so much for your wonderful blog comments, loving emails, positive thoughts, and good wishes!