Tuesday, January 7, 2014

A Look Ahead...

Well, when the going gets tough...the tough gets run through the mill...again.  I heard from my primary doctor today that my ultrasound was perfectly normal, nothing high or low...beautiful.  That is good news, however doesn't explain a damn thing for the sensations I am having.  We talked about getting the CT scan to "ease my mind".  As much as I completely freaked out about having it done, I am going to do it...on Thursday.  No time like the present.  It will go one of two ways: All good, and I will feel great and move on! And I will know that the yuckies I am dealing with are drug related.  I can process and adjust.  Or, they find something else and I have to deal with another mess.  I vote for the first one of course.  I am a tad stressed out...go figure.  Nobody promised me that this was going to be easy.  Nobody.

I have a fun week ahead of me.  I have the CT on Thursday afternoon.  Which means I get to chug the barium liquid at school. Fun times. Then on Friday I get Herceptin and see the oncologist. She probably won't have the CT results because they take two business days they said.  Then on Monday I have the Mugga heart scan, yes, it has been another three months. That means two IV's, my favorite!!!  I am also trying to see my surgeon, because I have another issue to ask her about, but can't get in until Jan 29th.  I am stressed.  I am over the top stressed out right now.  I am trying to hold it together, but it isn't easy.  I thought once I was done with the "hard stuff", things would be better. I thought I would bounce back and start being able to live my life again, without sickness, pain, burns, and major side effects....but no. I am not lucky enough right now to not be fearful of this next week and what is going on in my body.

I know that worrying is bad. I know that stress kills. Brad tells me that worrying will kill me.  That doesn't help because then I am killing myself right now, I can't help but worry. Most normal human beings would if they were in my situation. They would.  I know it...if not, I am a pansy assed worry wart, and there is nothing I can do to change that.

Five weeks from today I will hopefully be having phase 1 of my reconstruction. I  know that my fear of something bad interfering with that surgery is also causing me huge anxiety.  I want to just move on.  I am tired of burdening my husband with my drama, nobody wants to hear it.  I don't want to hear it either.  I really don't know what to do. I am feeling pretty down, alone and scared.  It is a joy to be me today.  However, Marley and I made yummy cookies on cold day2. That's something good.

That's all I've got. 

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