1/6/22

All day today I thought it was Friday.  Now, I find out it's Thursday.  I'm all screwed up.  David took me for my back procedure yesterday.  After 4-1/2 hours, we made it home.  Not too bad.  They said it would take 24-48 hours for me to see any results.  Nothing yet to report.  Dang it.  But, wait!  It's only Thursday!  I should know by tomorrow afternoon.  Friday.  I got this.

I started my new chemo drug today.  David picked it up for me.  $3116.07 for 28 days.  This had better work.  I don't qualify for assistance and the one foundation that might have helped me, isn't covering metastatic breast cancer any longer.  Check with us later.  Sure.  I'll do that.  This new drug is quite nasty.  If someone else gives me my medicine, they have to wear gloves, and then throw them away immediately.  Let that sink in.  The list of side effects is so long that it would have been much simpler for them just to list what side effects have not been associated with it.  It's called Verzenio.  Also know as Abemaciclib.  If anyone wants to look that up.  I had to attend 'chemo class' before they'd give it to me.  I learned ALL about it.  I have 8 full pages of information to refer to.  It's great.  I'll also probably be unable to father a child now. 

I'm still having my ups and downs after learning way too much about my lungs.  Not good.  Sometimes ignorance IS bliss.  I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know back then.  Sigh.  Sometimes I feel kinda witchy.  Oh, that reminds me....

Did you hear about the witch that got really angry while on her broomstick?!?

She flew off the handle.

You're welcome.



 


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

  6/16/25 I’m back. By a show of hands, everyone that loves my charts, and patient portals, etc. raise those hands high! Hmmmm, I see none going up. I have sent messages on my patient portal on several occasions and heard nothing back. So, I call the office and leave a message, because you never get a real person the first time. No one calls me back. I think I might drive to the office tomorrow. ….. sigh. On a good note, my ctDNA test came back negative. Hooray! And I go back to MD Anderson in Houston in two months. I have an endoscopy in three weeks. I see my rheumatologist in two days. I need to get my dermatologist to take a look at my head. It’s been five weeks since she cut that open and it still has not healed. It’s still scabby and bloody. So, I still cannot get in the pool. And I have to stay out of the sun. It looks pretty icky on the top of my head, I’m sorry to say.  David and I celebrated my good news by going to Shreveport this past weekend. We had a good time. Th...
Read more
  5/12/2025 It’s been five months since I’ve written in my blog. Several people are upset with me for taking such a long break. However, my life just hasn’t been very exciting these past few months. I will appease the masses and update my blog today. David and I went on a seven day cruise in January and I continued with physical therapy twice a week for my back. David and I took a road trip in February and March. We drove thousands of miles and stopped in to see a lot of old friends along the way. We made it to Vegas and we got to see Garth Brooks in concert. That was a lot of fun. We kept going through Utah and Colorado and finally made our way back home. I cut almost 10 inches off of my hair in March. It was my first real haircut in years. I had another sleep study done and saw the pulmonologist several times. He wanted a special kind of sleep study so I went back for a third one. He ordered me another CPAP machine, but this one has a different mouthpiece and I sleep pretty well ...
Read more
12/10/25 Thursday First of all, good news. My latest cancer test came back negative.  I am currently in Las Vegas, supposedly having a grand time, but I am not. I got food poisoning and spent all day yesterday in bed. At least when I wasn’t vomiting or had diarrhea. All dang day. By evening, I was so weak I could barely walk. The hotel called paramedics and they took me to the ER. I was there until 11:30 PM last night. Poor David. I felt so sorry for him. It was a horrible evening and I’m still weak this morning. I haven’t eaten anything since Tuesday evening . We’re supposed to fly home tomorrow. I sure hope I’m better than this by then. I got show tickets for last night with spectacular seats and David had to take them back and get our money back. At least we got to go to the national finals rodeo Tuesday night. That was so much fun! Today doesn’t look like much fun, though. I feel horrible. They did a lot of scans at the hospital. Showed a lot of scarring in my right lung, which...
Read more