chemo day

Well today was an interesting one. I had my chemo appointment at the Masonic Cancer Center and I had a lot of weird things go down. I am now officially done with chemotherapy treatments. They actually doubled up my doses so I don't have to go back in in two weeks and it gives my body 4 full weeks to cycle the treatments through and out. This gives me a better chance of a quicker recovery after the surgery and less chances for things to happen during it. I wasn't expecting them to do that at all, but it makes complete and total sense to do that after they explained everything to me. The pain in my left shoulder blade was something of concern obviously and they didn't think the cancer spread since the reactions we were getting were overwhelmingly positive. To the them the pain is most likely the nerves in my chest forcing reactions across my shoulder. Either way it is still something they will be monitoring. So they refilled my Oxycontin 20mg pills and that pretty much takes care of everything. For those of you out there that don't really know much about medications. Oxycontin is a very strong and addictive pain med. 20mg is also a pretty large dosage. Most people receive 10mg, but because I becoming resistant to a lot of pain meds. I have to get the larger doses. Lets put it this way if someone who doesn't take a lot of pans pills at all takes one of the 20mg they would more than likely be flying high for a long time or sleep for ours on end. I also was running a 99.3 degree fever while I was there and I didn't feel any different than normal so it was really odd to hear that one. It made sense though when they said I probably have an infection where one of the Hydranitis Suprativa was and is still healing so they gave me a penicillin type drug to take to curb it. Other than that I also told them that I am starting to get winded really easily and it is not normal at all. It happens a lot when I lay down on my back. It is pretty bad and painful. Since they heard that from me they made me go have a CT scan right after the chemo doses to see if a blood clot showed up at all. I am assuming that nothing has showed up since I never heard anything back from them at all. Since I had twice my normal dosage of my chemo treatments today it also means that if I have any side effects they will be twice as bad and probably have me down and out for a week or so. They said that I almost cetrainly will have the redness and pain in my hands and feet, back pain, mouth sores for a couple of weeks, and some nausea. I feel the nausea a bit and I am on my anti-nausea pills for the time being. I really want to be off of any side medicine I can in the net couple of weeks so my body can regenerate itself and be cleansed of it. I need my immune system to be in the best shape possible for this surgery. I am terrified of something going wrong and needing my body to recover itself better. Hopefully that makes sens to people out there.

I am back in Madison this weekend rooting on the Badgers. The party is back at 136 Breese so stop on by and tell me hi if you want or just drink a few beers. I am super pumped to see the W house crew again. It will be nice to get out of the cities again and get a good ol gameday extravaganza under my belt before the surgery.

On a side note for all of you out there. My hair is finally coming in pretty thick now and it is official.....it is black. So it is a little darker than before. I am also growing a pretty sweet mustache and flavor saver. I always wanted to grow a mustache, but could never get rid of the chin hair in fear of the Nuoffer double chin appearing. The reason I am doing the mustache is because I told George whom I used to work with that I would do it when my hair was growing back.

I am also on day 4 living in Burnsville at Traci's and I am really liking it here. Traci is cool as hell and I appreciate her letting me stay here for a little while. I also think I have her addicted to Big Brother....thats right Traci you know you are!!!!