Chemo cycle 6 self-delayed, MRI next month

Holly and I had an appointment with the oncologist on Tuesday. An wait in the waiting room, no answer to two queries as to why we had to wait so long. No apology when we finally did get in.The Cancer mill bites again.

Standard meeting with the doctor. He checks that I have can move all my limbs and a gross check of my field of vision. I passed. Yeah!

I asked if we could delay the start of this cycle for a week. I was looking at the calendar and not only would labor day weekend follow a cycle, but I would be on chemo Christmas day. Delaying this cycle by a week starts this cycle on the Monday of Labor day and the week after Christmas. They were agreeable, and I am excited to see how I feel with an extra week of this cycle.

Then we go to checkout. I needed to make an appointment for the next month and schedule my next MRI. Now we are about an hour away - its nice to have them both on the same day. The scheduler at the chemo mill says sorry, cant do that, has to be on two separate days. I was furious, got up and left. Today I called my nurse and she was able to do it. I wish there was a way to bypass that whole scene.

So unless something drastic happens between now and the end of September, you probably won't hear much out of me.

Have a nice weekend.

Radiation hair recovery after 5 months.

As I mentioned before, I stopped shaving and let my hair grow out to see what it looks like.

Most of my hair fell out by the end of the 6 weeks of radiation,
See week 6 pics here
 And since then I have been sportn' the Mr. Clean look.  Here is what I look like today:

I think it looks freaky, but people say it looks good (especially Brian at work ;) and shaving blows chunks, so this will be my new look for a while.

5th Chemo Cycle dragging on

Well its Sunday afternoon, and I still am feeling the effects of the chemo. I would usually feel better by Saturday afternoon. I watched my diet and kept active but the chemo 'daze' is still lingering. I took the decadron steroid this cycle to hold off the headaches, that worked well. I can't seem to put all the thoughts in my head into words right now....so I'll cut this post short....