All tethered up and no placed to go.

Well I finished up my last midnight shift, gave a three and half hour deposition, got my tractor tire fix, worked an extra shift yesterday afternoon, and everything went fine. It was a just a long day and after that, I slept about eleven hours. Like I said before, I was a little more exhausted this last week, than I normally am on midnights, but as long as I got enough sleep I was fine. I haven’t been able to do anything but work and sleep. Saturday I only slept four hours, but then on Monday I slept all most ten hours. This is truly unusual for me, especially lately with the insomnia that I have been having.

I am still having what I call T-N-T. A bad Taste in my mouth, Nausea, and the Tingling in my fingers. All they are controllable with drugs. Life is not the same without drugs. But I talked to the doctor about it, to ease my mind. The one thing that I am a little worried about is that going into Chemo with the nausea. If I already have some nausea, will it get worse with the treatment? I know the nausea has stayed with me the entire three weeks since the last treatment and it didn’t do that on the first treatment.

I think prepped for my treatment as best I can. I stopped taking my blood pressure medicine so hopefully my BP won’t drop like it did last time. I am trying to drink as much as I can, to keep myself hydrated. And since I am spending a lot of time in the bathroom, because of all the water I drink, I have doubled up on the laxatives to eliminate those problems that the Chemo drugs cause.

So I am sitting in the doctor’s treatment center, tethered to an IV pump, getting part three of a nine part treatment. This takes about five hours, so I am still bringing my computer into the doctor’s office. Ironically I had to tether my computer to the wall, because I ran out of battery power, because I was on it so long.

Talked with the doctor this morning about the bad taste, the nausea, and the tingling. Of course all of them normal and they could be worst. He said that some people get so bad on tingling in their fingers that they can’t even button their shirt. So I guess I am very lucky. The company HR temporary secretary finally caught up with me and gave me my paper work for being off work two weeks for my first treatment, the first of April. When I gave the doctor the paper this morning, he looked at me strangely and asked “You went back to work?” I told yes, and told him that after the first treatment I was able to work a week before the next treatment. Then after the second treatment, even with the nausea, I was able to work two weeks. I also said that I was hoping to go back to work this time in about a week. He said amazing. I always thought I was.
So I don’t know what will happen, but we will find out.