[cancer] Chemo series three, session five, day two

This is my 29th chemo infusion since January of 2010, across three series. In the past two and half years since first beginning chemo, I'm spent more time on chemo or in immediate recovery, or in surgery and immediate surgical recovery, than I've spent being healthy, happy and whole. Such is my life. At least I am still alive.

At the moment the peripheral neuropathy in my hands is nearly crippling. My lower GI failed to move Thursday afternoon or Friday morning, and is now shut down by the drugs, so I will spend the weekend bloated and unwilling to eat due to there not being any room down there. I am tired and goofy, but not as unfocused as some chemo sequences have had me.


Photo © 2012 Lisa Costello. All rights reserved. Reproduced with permission.

Today, I lay low and rewatch movies, probably the extended edition of Lord of the Rings. tillyjane (a/k/a my Mom) is here as primary caregiver, the_child will be kicking about, and Lisa Costello is of course here. There might even be a visitor or two.