Feeling OK, But.

The last few days have been pretty good. Monday I was still working around the house and did some yard work. Went down to my brother’s green house and told him I needed enough tomato plants to plant my EAST 20 acreage. Debi & I decided that since I couldn’t get any grass started and I didn’t care what anyone thought about my yard, that I would put a small garden in right next to the house to make it easier to keep up with. Last year I had large garden that I couldn’t take care of. So this year, I rototilled up an enough ground to have about four 20 foot rows of plants, hence the EAST 20. Eastern most row, about seven tomato plants. I also rototilled up enough ground that the five year old granddaughter could have a dirt pile. She announced that the best year of her life was when she had a dirt pile. That was two years ago, when we were building the house.

Started working midnights Tuesday and I am doing OK. I have four done and three more to go. I will be done with them next Tuesday morning. I feeling more fatigued than normal. I make it through the shifts OK, but I am very tired when I get home. I am sleeping better, through modern chemistry with a prescription for sleeping pills.

My fingers tips are still very sensitive / numb feeling. I wear gloves when I work, but typing and writing things out bothers me a little. I still have the strange taste in mouth, but I am gaining weight. Food tastes peculiar, but when I eat, I lose the bad taste in my mouth, so I continue to eat. I also think the Prednisone is also affecting my eating habits. But then you have the nausea. It has stayed with me a lot longer and worse on this second treatment than the first treatment. The first time after the first week I was able to control it with ginger root and the way I ate, but this time I am using more of the prescription nausea medication. But according the every third Wednesday Chemo Club, where we are just sitting around the doctor’s office hooked up to tubes, some people say they are getting worse with each treatment and some say they are getting better. We will see after next Wednesday when I get my third treatment