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| Start weight: | 208.00lb |
| Current weight: | 145.00lb |
| Goal weight: | 150.00lb |
| Lost to date: | 63.00lb |
| Remaining: | -5.00lb |
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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!
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.
I found out today that I'll go have my stem cells removed on April 29 and 30 and be admitted to the hospital on May 8 for more chemo and the transplant. My tests say I'm in remission so now is the time to get things going. I'm both happy and anxious but I want to get it over with as soon as I can. I need to make out a will too. I'm feeling great right now and still eating like a pig. It's the first time in 6 months that I can taste bacon....yummmy!
My babies are coming over Saturday and we're going to color Easter eggs. It'll be fun. Hope everyone is having a good week!
I had my bone marrow biopsy today and I do NOT like big ole needles stuck into my bones! Plus she had to stick me twice to get a blood sample. THEN after the biopsy I had to have my normal every Monday blood test at my oncologists......so that was 4 needles stuck in me today. I am getting tired of being a pin cushion. I just hope I'm in remission but it'll probably take at least a week for the results. If I'm not, then I won't be able to have the transplant yet.
As for food....I'm still eating like a pig. I just can't help it because I know that I'll lose my taste again when I have the next chemo before I have the transplant. I don't want to gain any weight though because the 40 pounds I've lost so far is a good start for my further weight loss. Oh welll, I'll worry about that later!
Well, my taste is back in full force....thank goodness. I'll be able to eat until my next chemo. This last time it took three weeks instead of two to come back. Ken and I went to Golden Corral tonight and I pigged out! EVERYTHING tasted great! I can't believe my stomach held it all....lol. Hope I didn't strech it too much, but boy was it good after three weeks.
My appointment at the cancer center is tomorrow instead of Wed. Hopefully I'll know when my transplant will be after that. I just want to get it over with. I'm really nervous about it, but I'll just do what I've been doing.....taking everything one day at a time.
Hope ya'll had a good weekend.
P.S. Just got home from Moffitt and I'll be having a PET scan and a CAT scan on Friday and they're trying to get my bone marrow test on Monday. I'm happy they I'm progressing! I should know if I'm in remission or not after those tests.
I have my appt for March 5 with the stem cell doctor....finally! I'm both excited and scared. I don't know when the actual procedue will be. TThey have to give me a jillion tests and then they have to take out all my bone marrow, kill the cancer in it, then give it back to me when I'm in remission. I just want to get it over and have a life again. This feeling so crappy for 6 months solid has been miserable, I want to get back to being like everyone else and whining about why I'm not losing weight.....lol. That's what this board is for! See ya'll later......going to take a nap.
I feel much better today and I think my taste will be back tomorrow. Oh no......I'll have to be on a diet again.......noooooooo! I said in my last post that my vision was blurry and that worried me. I thought the chemo was making me blind. Well, guess what.....I had lost the right lens to my glasses and didn't even know it......duh! I'm hopeless at times.....lol. Another $120 I can't afford!
I got the appt to see the actual bone marrow transplant team on March 5 so that's progress. I'm excited to be moving closer to getting it done. Talk atcha later gang!
Sorry to be negative...AGAIN.....but yesterday was a horrible day. I spent the day in the doc's office and went home so weak I could barely walk or do anything. My eyesight was blurry too. I try to stay positive, but I don't know how much more I can take. And if I go into remission after the transplant and the cancer comes back, which it does 60% of the time, I don't think I can go through all this again. Is it worth it all? Is this life? I just don't know. I just don't know.
Have a good weekend everyone. I'm trying to. Hopefully I can get my head back together.
I do love her becase she did everything possible to keep me out of the hospital. I spent every day this week in her office from 9-5 getting IV fluids and oxygen.....but anything is better than being admitted to all those germs when you have no blood counts. I go to Moffitt Cancer Center on March 6 to be evaluated for my transpalnt......yaaaay! I'm scared but want to get it over with.
Gotta love my scale too! I'm getting so close to my goal weight. I hope after I get well I'll keep it off......in fact........I WILL keep it off.....but don't quote me if I start whining about gaining weight. 
I HATE not being able to taste food for almost two weeks out of every three! I get soooo hungry but nothing sounds good or tastes good. I'm a fat girl starving......lol. Had my last in-office chemo Monday so this Monday will be my bad day when I feel very weak and dizzy. I just want to stay out of the hospital until I go in for my stem cell transplant and more chemo when I'll be in for three-four weeks. I just want to get it done so I can go to Canada for the summer. Wish me luck!
