who knew?

so, I have been feeling just great! NO NAUSEA!! lots of energy. The nurse from my radiologist's office and I sat down to try to figure out why I felt so much better after having the procedure done. The only thing we could figure is that I had not been given benadry pre procedure before, and I felt great the day after. Something in the benadryl? maybe, whatever it is, I'll take it. So I am taking one benadryl cap every 3 or 4 hours, makes me a little sleepy for a short period, but I get through that and feel fine the rest of the day. hooray!

Feeling great

today is a good day! have lots of energy and NO nausea! Had my sirspheres yesterday, maybe it was the drugs they gave me yesterday, I don't care, I am just going to enjoy the moment!

I lost a dear friend yesterday

Got the call this morning, my dear friend Melissa died yesterday after a heroic battle with colon cancer. I HATE THIS DISEASE!!!! Fortunately she passed peacefully in her sleep. Melissa has always been my hero, even through the way she handled this biggest challenge. Two years ago the doctors gave up on her and told her to go be with her family. She refused to give in and had another two years with her family that no one thought she would. Melissa, I am going to miss you so much!

no news

went for chemo today and to try to figure out why I still can't keep food down. My onco thinks that perhaps my stomach and intestines are moving food along as fast as they could, so trying more of a medicine that I have been taking, Reglan. Now instead of twice a day I will be doing it before meals and see if that will work. It was pretty depressing today since I was in quite a bit of pain and couldn't keep my dinner down.

update

well, I've had all the tests and they can't find anything, considering some of the things that could have been wrong I guess I am lucky. They are saying that the cause of all the nausea and vomiting is probably the chemo and radiation. I was having a fairly good week, ate and kept everything down, until this morning when I woke up at 4 am with terrible nausea and dry heaves. It really gets to me sometimes. I can't say I'm not happy with my present weight, I haven't been this thin in some years, but I don't like the cause and I don't want to lose anymore. Cancer just sucks.

Still losing weight

seven pounds just this week! So, today I have a barium swallow, yippee, I get to drink chalk!, and on Friday an EGD with is a fancy way of saying that they will be putting a tube down my throat for a look see. There are all sorts of possibilities, some major, some minor, I just want the nausea and vomiting to stop!

Went to IKEA yesterday with my sister and her friend. 2 1/2 hours in a wheelchair on my now bony butt, painful! but it was fun, next time I'm bringing a pillow!