Ok, I owed you all an update nearly a month ago. Between rounds 2 and 3 I ran into some small complications which caused us to delay chemo for 2 more weeks. Yesterday was the end of cycle 3 and I have no more chemo left to do! This is good on multiple levels but I'm also wondering if my body was able to take much more. The past couple months my nueropathy has increased to the soles of my feet and occasionally the fingertips. The numbness should go away over time. I have also started to have a Pavlov nausea response to the clinic at SCCA where just the smell of the place can make me puke. I guess that's my body saying "what the hell did you come back here for?!". My blood counts were also low but OK to do treatment just barely.
I'm not quite out of the woods yet as the delay was caused by a hydrocele in my groin area. We did a CT and MRI scan to double check that it was not any kind of occurrence and the results came back clean. The hydrocele is nothing life threatening, just causes me enough pain to want to sit on the couch rather than go for a walk (in other words, beginning to drive me crazy). Good thing the chemo this week has been knocking me out so I'm sleeping most of the day anyway. I have yet to talk with my surgeon but it looks like it will need to be surgically removed. It is likely a small complication from the previous surgery and will be minor. Hoping to get that fixed soon so that I can fully enjoy summer and get back to some normal living.
It was nice to have a concluding conversation with my oncologists yesterday. We discussed pulling out the port and how we plan to do scans every 3 months for the first year to be certain things are going well. After that it will be scans every 6 months until the 5 year mark.
Thanks again everyone for the continued support.
