Celebrating Stand Up Days

I am celebrating...not only the new year but the reality that I can stand up! Sounds totally weird, and yet for quite a  long time, standing has been difficult and walking around the house without feeling like I was going to pass out was nearly impossible. For the past two or three days, I have had stand up days. Not stand up comic days, just straight up, thinking days!

You cannot imagine what a genuinely good feeling it is to sit up and eat. And to be able to put a puzzle together with my sister and her husband is awesome. We even played some card games in the evening, and I could think! There still is some fogginess, but I can begin to see through the fog.

What I discovered yesterday by reading the recent updates to my patient portal is that my oncologist changed one of my chemotherapy drugs. In fact, it sounds as though the 'T' chemo drug was changed to a different version of the same drug. It's making such a HUGE difference that I am believing in the return of energy, normalcy and appetite.

Another really, really, really good thing is happening: my nose bleeds are stopping. Previously, I was dealing with two and three unpredictable nose bleeds a day that would last nearly an hour each. Very draining, you might say, and I would totally agree. Makes me wonder if changing that drug has helped the nose bleeds cease. One of those questions I need to ask.

So, I am reporting in to share my possible re-entry to the world. Perhaps there is hope in 2022 that all that strength and courage and peace that I have been praying for is seeping into my overall health and well being. I cross my fingers and toes that it will last. Tomorrow I get my blood tested again, and Friday I am supposed to go for another treatment. Right now, I am blessed, and grateful that my body is giving me a break. I really needed one.

Leaving you to play games and teach classes, The quilting cancer girl