Doing OK!!

I didn't post after my last chemo because I was feeling sooooo good (after 3 yucky weeks in a row). It was nice to finally be done with the nasty cold that had me bound with a cough. I made it through chemo #6 (halfway) and was so glad to get that far. Some days I just don't see how I'll make it through. I just want to feel good and keep feeling good. Mike is my biggest cheerleader and keeps me going.

So #7 chemo is done and hopefully the remaining treatments will go better. The fatigue is just so unreal. It hit me on Thursday night and today is the first day I feel semi normal. On Friday I didn't even have enough energy to take a shower. No matter how you look at it...chemotherapy is torture for the body. My eyelashes are thinning out, my hair is thinning, I have brown patches on my hands, no taste, the steroids I have to take for a couple days for nausea make me all puffy, the lack of energy and extreme tiredness, and just trying to keep a positive attitude are all so hard. Luckily I have a great support group. My family has been the best, especially my mom for making her monthly trips to Utah. My great husband who tries to keep me seeing the positive and has helped so much more around the house with just the little things. My great friends who are there at a moment's notice and check in with me regularly. My great ward where everyone is so eager to help and just stop by to see how I'm holding up. I also have a great job where there are so many concerned and just last week they surprised me with a massage gift certficate. I'll probably wait to use it till I feel good.

I will get through this although at times it is easy to get down and wonder if the end is in sight.

I thought I would post some pictures of our lovely beginning to November. October ended really warm and then winter descended.