FEELING MUCH BETTER!

Just a short post to let ya'll know how I'm doing.  Since I got the blood I feel like a new person.  Still tired most of the time but not dizzy anymore.  I put a new pic on the bottom of my blog.  I look so beautiful I had to share....lol.   My fingernails are falling off due to the chemo, but my hair is finally coming back.  It's been such a fun and exciting year!    Everyone is still bugging me to eat, but I'm up to 141 now. 

Thanks to everyone who wrote comments even when I wasn't responding.  It means a lot.   :)

BACK TO FLORIDA.....PERMANENTLY :(

Well, I dept getting dizzy and weak and falling down so I had to fly home to get some blood... Now that I have had it I feel so much better,.....but don't want to leave my doctor again.  It's just too far away and I don't know if my insurance covers me in Canada anyway.....so here I am.  I'm down to 134 and still have a poor appetite......and I'm still in remission!

WILL I EVER FEEL NORMAL? :(

I've been in Canada for two weeks and it's rained every single day since I got here.  Besides that, I still can't eat, have trouble breathing, feel extrememly weak and tired and I'm depressed.  I thought I'd be normal three months after the transplant but boy was I wrong.  Hubby still does everything for me because I'm so weak.  I've lost 68 pounds since I got sick, not the way I wanted to do it.

Enough whining.....just wanted to let folks know I'm still alive and kicking, though barely.....lol.

Sandy

FINALLY HOME.

Well, I just finished the worst 10 months of my life battling this cancer.  There were times I thought I wasn't going to make it.  I had the chemo and then the bone marrow transplant on May 10.  I could barely turn over in bed or walk to the bathroom I was so weak and exhausted.  I woke up foaming at the mouth like a dog every morning and my tongue felt like it had been cut with a knife.  I was in the hospital for three weeks and then stayed at an apartment  nearby provided by the hospital for two more weeks so I could go the hospital for shots, fluids and tests every day.  I didn't eat for three weeks and went from 208 pounds in October to 149 now.  I don't recommend this for weight loss though!

Hubby and puppy are driving to Canada next week to take our trailer up and set things up.  I'm not ready for a 1500-mile trip in a bumpy truck hauling a trailer so I'm flying up on July 23.  I can't wait to be at my peaceful spot on the lake with all the critters and no city sounds!

I'm tired so I'll talk to ya'll later,

HAVING MY TRANSPLANT.

I've been in the cancer center for 6 days now and have my transplant tomorrow.  I'm doing well so far with the chemo but will probably be feeling bad after tomorrow.  I won't have any white blood cells so I have to wait to grow more.  I'll be here about two more weeks, then to  Hope Lodge, which is sort of like a Ronald McDonald house because I can't be more than 15 minutes away from the hospital.

It's boring but I have books and my laptop so that helps.  My grandbabies have had colds so they couldn't come visit.  Sick people aren't allowed.  Hopefully they'll come Thursday.

I hope everyone is doing well.

BUSY, BUSY, BUSY!

Sorry I haven't posted in so long but I've been going to the cancer center seven days a week for injections and more tests and we're there from 8 am to 4 pm, but last night we were there until 8 pm. They started my stem cell collection yesterday and I went again today.  They still don't have enough cells so I'm hooked up to the machine a little longer every day and I've had three units of blood.  It'll be longer than five hours tomorrow and if I get blood it'll be another two to four hours.  The injections I get twice a day, two shots each time, are giving me flu-like symptoms and bone pain.  It's not horrible and it's progress toward my transplant.  I just hope they get the over two million cells they need!

Have a great weekend everyone!  I'll be thinking of ya'll and being jealous....lol.

A GREAT WEEK SO FAR!

It's so much fun to be able to do things again, even if's temporary.  Saturday my daughter had a fund-raiser party at her house and the donations went to Moffit Cancer Center.  It was nice to meet her new friends and see her old friends.  I had a great time and ate too much again....lol.

Today we went on a dolphin-hunting boat and saw lots of dolphins, including a baby who swam right along with it's mommy.  They swim beside the boat and jump in the wake.  They're so close it seems like they'll jump right on the boat.  It's so much nicer to see them in their natural habitat.  My grandbabies loved it.

I feel great right now and I hope everyone had a great weekend!

BUSY DAY.

I went to Moffitt Cancer Center today and had 9 appointments for several different tests and visits with physicians's assistant's, case manager's, and a class about the bone marrow transplant.  It was worse than a day working!  I go back tomorrow for more tests.   I'll be so glad when this is all over and I have something else to write about....lol.

Diet wise.....I'm still eating waaay too much.  I'm feeling so good right now I can't believe it.  Things will change when I go in the hospital next month though so I don't care how much weight I gain!  I'm just going to enjoy my food while I can.  Yum...yum!

GOOD NEWS!

Just a short post to say my colonoscopy was negative....yaay!  One less thing to worry about.  I think I'm weird because I like anesthesia.....lol.  It's such a strange feeling but it's cool to just go to sleep and then wake up and everything is over!    If there just wasn't a prep!

ANOTHER UNEXPECTED TEST

I had a great time with the kids Saturday.  We colored eggs for the Easter bunny to hide at their house and had our traditional plastic Easter egg hunt in my yard.  It rained all day so we got umbrellas and went ahead anyway.  Kids are so cute and precious when they still believe in Santa and the Easter bunny.  This is probably the last year my grandson will believe....he goes into first grade next year.

The doc called and said she saw something on my PET scan that she wanted to check out so I have to have a colonoscopy Friday....yuk!    That's the one test I hate because of all the laxatives you have to take.  The actual procedure is nothing.    I should have known things wouldn't go smoothly.  Hopefully it's not my other cancer coming back.  I was cured 15 years ago.  Oh well, we'll see!

Hubby is taking me out for dinner on my birthday Saturday.  We go to a place that gives you a 16-ounce T-bone dinner free on your birthday.  It's our cheap tradition....lol.  It's really good though.  Thank goodness my taste is good untill May......and I feel super right now.  I'm really looking forward to Saturday!

Have a good week everyone and thanks for your comments.