Chemo 7

The cumulative effects of treatment are starting to kick in. Recovery appears to be taking a little longer than usual. In the past I would have treatment on Wednesday morning and wouldn’t start to decline until Friday evening. This time I started feeling bad Friday morning shortly after the nurse removed my portable IV pump. I had to come home and rest for a while before returning to work that day. Typically, I would be down for the weekend and Monday, but would start to rebound on Tuesday. This time I didn’t rebound until Wednesday morning. I also noticed a numbness in both of my feet extending from the ball of the foot to the toes. I was wondering if this could be the beginning of neuropathy.

Hair today, gone tomorrow

My hair had been thinning quite a bit during the course of treatment. I got it cut the week before, but it just wouldn’t lay right and I didn’t want to be one of those guys with the dreaded comb-over. I mentioned to my wife a few days before that I was think about shaving it all off. I went to Supercuts on Friday and got it high and tight. I got home that evening and my wife was in shock. I wasn’t real happy with the remaining stubble on top so I decided to shave the rest of it off. My wife kept staring at my bald head the entire evening, but the new look eventually grew on her. All I needed now was a lollipop…”who loves ya baby”?

Chemo 6

I saw the oncologist on Monday and he said that I’m doing great and that we could probably reduce the number of treatments from 12 down to 11 and I should be finished up around the 18th of November. He also informed me that the genetic testing for mutations in DNA mismatch repair genes came back negative, so good news for the family.