Two down!

Just a quick update to let everyone know I'm doing well. Thursday before my treatment I had an appointment with Dr. Chitambar and he and his nurse practitioner (Julie) called me a "chemo poster child". My blood test two weeks after the first treatment was good and everything was where it should have been. I did tell Julie that I would like if she could arrange for my leg hair to fall out or stop growing with this treatment. Not only would I be saving money on hair products for my head, but no more razors or shaving gel. She informed me that it may be that only the hair you don't want to fall out will, and unfortunately they aren't able to change that.

I'm also taking some acidolphilus pills (the stuff that is in yogurt since I can't stand yogurt) and Dr. Chitambar said "ah, well I guess you can keep taking them." Then we agreed that I wouldn't take them during the second week. I told him if I was miserable I was going to send him a nasty e-mail. He said that then he would tell me to go have some creamy french onion soup. (If I didn't mention it already, after my first treatment Matt and I went out for lunch and I had creamy french onion soup, a (big) half sandwich and two cookies - thanks to the steroids. I attribute that to some of my problems the first round.)

Thursday night was better than last time, likely because of my smaller lunch. The girls went over to our neighbors for pizza, which was a huge help. I watched a movie in bed at 6:30. I think the kids were excited to have me up there because Carina kept kicking the wall and Olivia was shining her flashlight into our room.

I hope you are all having a great weekend!