Preparing for the Week

 

Since I don’t work a normal 9-5 job, any time I have to get up early crushes me. Not that I sleep late, but I like to set my own clock rules.

Sunday and Wednesday at church mean that I have to get up early.

Okay two days I can handle. But now, with all these tests, scans and so forth, getting up early because I have to travel into town has become the norm.

I hate it.

It not only adds an extra hour of travel it’s an extra hour earlier I need to get up.

Tomorrow, I have a full body scan at 9:00 am, last one for at least 6 weeks. Yay!

Am I scared? No.

Am I worried that more ‘spots’ will pop up.

Actually no. If they do, they do.

At this point it doesn’t matter because it already  hit my lymph nodes, and with this type of breast cancer, once it does that … boom like shrapnel it’s everywhere. It’s all the same cancer that the treatment will fight. It doesn’t matter here or there, it’s going after it.

Tuesday is my first treatment. 100%  full strength, Extra long. First go.

Am I worried? No.

Am I scared .. yes

What will I face? What is going to happen? Will I have debilitating symptoms like nausea and stuff or will they feel like a minor inconvenience?  I will not know until I undergo the treatment.

One thing I do know is what they told me I can and should not eat during chemo. Number one thing is sushi and raw fish.

Wait. What?

That is the bane of my existence.

So today, Sunday, my daughter took me to my favorite place to eat., a place she works (Thanks discount)

I loaded up on all the things I can’t have during chemo. Oysters, raw fish ….

It was an amazing lunch.

But there it was …

A fun time. A waiter that was clueless. Normalcy. Until it wasn’t. Here’s the video;

Until tomorrow when I really unload it all on you. And by the time I post tomorrow I should know about the scan.