Chemoed Out

Or is it chemo'd out? Whichever way you want to spell it, it is the one word that best describes how Nancy has been feeling the last couple of days. General fatigue still, (hell - she slept 14 hours Friday night!) and all the rest of the usual side effects all rolled up into that general feeling that she summed up as "chemoed out." And those are her own words by the way...

Back at Cedars Saturday for the last hydration of the week. Last chemo this coming Tuesday, 2 hydrations on Wednesday and Thursday and that will bring this protocol to an end ladies and gentlemen.

More to come on that later. I was thinking today about the future of this blog once treatment ends next week. I will for sure post updates on scans and blood tests. I am hoping Nanc will post once in a while as well. It has certainly been a huge help in keeping everyone updated and saved us countless phone calls these last 5 months. I am looking forward to getting back to some sort of "regular life" - whatever that may be post-chemo. I can't say "post cancer" for at least 3 years I am told. I have also heard some mention that you're not officially cancer free for 5 to 10 years. We're going with Leuchter's time line of 3 years.

It's going to be interesting to see what effect all of this has on how we live our lives in the months and years to come. Maybe I'll start writing about that. On second thought, how boring. It will remain Nancy's cancer blog and all that it entails, pre, post, in the middle - whatever...

All that aside, I am finding it hard to believe that we are at the end of this phase. It seemed at times like it would never end, that there was no way she was gong to get through it. Hell, 5 months later, we are both still finding it hard to believe that all of this happened in the first place!

More updates to come from the infusion center on Tuesday with a picture or 2 of the staff and their cupcakes. We are taking cupcakes to say thank you. It's a very small way of trying to say thank you for such a huge help they all have been. I can't imagine what it would have been like if she had gone anywhere else...

xoxo