Last Chemo!
I'm so excited that TODAY is my last day of chemo! This is a milestone in my cancer treatment that I have been looking forward to since the beginning of treatment. I started out in September with a two-drug treatment once every two week for 4 treatments (that took 8 weeks.). That treatment was pretty rough on my system, but not as bad as I anticipated. I was VERY fatigued for 5-6 days afterward and just didn't feel right. Thankfully any stomach side effects were very minimal. My hair started falling out when the doctor told me it would. And so far through my entire treatment, my blood counts have been great and I've had no issues with infection from a compromised immune system. When that first treatment was finished, I started a second treatment, one-drug (different than the first two) once a week for 12 weeks. Today is #12 of 12! This treatment has been much more tolerable. The biggest side effects really came from the Benadryl and st...