Taxol #8 down - 4 to go!!

It's Monday! I'm two days early this week! Going into treatment this past Friday, I was sure my white blood count was going to get me booted. But, low and behold, my levels actually increased! Go figure. I am attributing this miracle to the Hershey candy bars I have been eating. It is in my opinion that chocolate not only tastes yummy (it is one the the few foods I can taste), it clearly has its health benefits!

So...I passed my blood tests again. My WBC and my liver enzymes were all good. Life was good.

This treatment I finally got a room with a view. As I gaze outside the window, finding shapes in the clouds, Nurse Dawn takes my vitals. Then the blood pressure machine starts beeping incessantly. This happened last week too. Only last week no one paid attention to it. What's up you ask? Seems my heart is not beating fast enough. Now, if you all remember, several tests ago it was determined that I did have a heart - it just beat to a different drummer. Friday it decided to beat much slower than it should. Nurse Dawn decides to check with Dr. W since the pre-chemo meds also slow down your heart. I suppose Nurse Dawn didn't want to mess up her day by having me collapse on her! Fear not! Dr. W. orders an EKG so off to Cardiology I go. If someone (and I am not sure who was responsible for this one) would have placed the order for the EKG, I wouldn't have sat there waiting for an hour! Luckily, I block out my entire day on the calendar so I had no place I needed to be:)

The girl who administered the test was able to see my Bigemini on paper. Finally my heart cooperates and does its weird stuff while I am hooked up to the machine. An hour wait, less than 5 minutes on the table, and I can go back to chemo. There I make myself comfortable (in my chair with a view) and wait for Dr. W. to give the go ahead to Nurse Dawn.

Dr. W. wasn't as concerned as Nurse Dawn so I was good to go for treatment. However, the blood pressure machine cuff stayed on my arm for the entire treatment and took my pressure every 10 minutes. Maybe Dr. W was a little concerned. No need to be. My heart eventually started beating faster. Either way, I received my treatment and was home by 1:30.

By now I am pooped and though I had tons of things to accomplish around the house, I laid down and 3 hours or so later, woke up.

Fatigue has definitely become an issue right after treatment and for the weekend. But I guess I deserve to be tired since I don't slow down to take the naps that I should. But I am proud to say my garden is planted and my flower beds all around the house are beautiful. The mulch is spread and the bushes trimmed. And.....yes, I have cut the grass and weed wacked. I am amazing if I do say so myself :) And on that note, I am going to take a nap before I start dinner!