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Monday, July 12, 2010

Chemo tomorrow.......mood-nervous

Sorry it has been a while since I posted anything on here.  I had my port put in on the 9th for the Chemo, tried going to work and couldn't do it. Worked for part of the day on Monday and came home early. Then I was out Tuesday, Wednesday and finally went back on Thursday.  I had a lot of fluid build up on the right side where the cancer was and the lymph nodes were removed, so I had to get that drained.  The left side has healed pretty well and the port side is doing better.  On Friday, I woke up with fever, a massive headache and my face hurt like HELL!  I called the Oncologist and he called in a Big Gun Antibiotic called Levaquin for my Sinus infection.  I don't know if he is going to let me start my chemo tomorrow or not since I had the fever.  I suspect he gave me the Levaquin instead of Zpack so I could start tomorrow, but I don't know.  My fever finally broke last night and I tried to go to work today, but just didn't feel well.  I had Abel come pick me up early from work.  I called my surgeon office.  I went in and had over 300cc's of fluid removed from the right side.  I had so much fluid in there I looked like I had a deformed breast on the right again.  Gross...I know.   I feel a little better now, but I have a lot of swelling on the right side and it is really hard.  I don't know if that is normal.  I am going to call them again tomorrow.

My first round of chemo tomorrow. Honestly, I am pretty nervous about it.  You can't imagine all the wonderful 'tips' I have received!!  Some were good, others were....well, let's just say - I will just have to take the poison as it comes-cause there is NO WAY I AM DOING THAT!!! LOL! My friend Rene gave me a blanket that she was given when she started her chemo...she said it was handed down to her with love so she was now handing it down to me the same way.  She also gave me a book for after I am done with my treatment.  I am so thankful for her. 

I have been blessed with so many wonderful people in my life and they say--you know who your true friends are when you go through a real crisis.  I am thankful, that most of the people I call friend....have been true friends.  Many of you have told me to ask for help especially while I go through my treatment, so I am going to ask.  If you can help I will appreciate it, if you can't I love you anyway...

What I would appreciate - 

Meals- ( nothing with sour-cream please) Here is the link - 
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Scarves/cool hats - you can never have too many of them right???....they don't have to be new...your old favorite one would be awesome, or a fun, crazy, wild one.  Which reminds me- CRAP....I never went to get any and next week is when I shave my head - yikes!! better get my butt in gear.

Prayers- please continue to pray for me...that I will have the strength to fight this and know that God is with me.

Hugs to you all -
Yolanda

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