Chemo Four

This is my last one of these 2 drugs (doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide). I will have a mammogram and ultrasound in the next week or so to check official measurements and response to chemo. They will compare that to the mammogram and ultrasound I had back on December 23. So I'm praying it shows good response. 

Our usual Cookie Boy is not here today. We have a replacement cookie boy though. So Brian still got his chocolate chip fix. I'm having lemon heads. When they flush my port with saline it gives me an awful taste/smell in the back of my throat. Just thinking about it makes me shudder. I'm trying lemon heads to combat that. But chances are that lemon heads will be dead to me after today so I may have to try something else next time. 

I have found a few vegan, gluten free, organic, no sugar added things that are not terrible to eat in the past couple of weeks. I've also found a few more things that taste like dog food and/or cardboard though so it's still hit or miss. 

I'll see my oncologist again on March 11 then I'll start my first round of my next 2 drugs on March 14. The next regimen is 12 weeks of paclitaxel every week with carboplatin added every 4th week starting week 1. I'm campaigning to get more carboplatin than that. I'm hoping for every 3rd week instead of every 4th. My oncologist said maybe she would do that if my white blood count doesn't tank after the carbo/paclitaxel. I'm just wanting as much as I can get to try and get rid of this cancer for good. Bring on the drugs!

So in the chemo countdown, 4 down, 12 to go! 

In other news, I found out that my pet wig is part Wookie. I got these masks for Timothy's upcoming birthday party and the pet wig just blends right in! 

(Insert Wookie noises here. Not sure how to type those out?!?)