Still Recovering

It's Saturday morning here and I'm sitting downstairs with the dog having a cup of coffee. I'm feeling much better today and feel like I'm on the road to getting back to normal. All the feeling of nausea is gone and fortunately the sore throat I was experiencing the other day has also diminished.

I do have a couple other side effects that are really bugging me, but it appears I'm just going to have to deal with them till they subside or finally clear up. The ringing in the ears thing is back and loud noises and such really bother me. If you read in some of my other posts a few weeks ago, I tried to describe it, but it's really weird. Seems if I'm in an enclosed space like the inside of my truck, noises really bother me. And when I'm in a shopping center, all the background noise that is going on tends to become an issue. Again, it's really hard to describe, but with the ringing in the ears and the background noises being amplified or something, it can really screw you up.

Another issue I continue to struggle with is the fact that most food tastes like crap! Again, I'm confident that in the near future this will clear up and food will taste like it should, but in the interim, it's frustrating smelling all this good food and anticipating that it will taste good only to discover that it tastes awful. I'm sitting here trying to think what I've had in the last week that even tastes good and about the only thing that comes close is soup and popsicles. I so want to dig into a steak, chicken, burger, burrito, potatoes, sandwich.......Sheesh, I'm making my mouth water thinking about it.

It must really seem like I use this platform to complain a lot, but you just can't imagine what it's like until you've experienced this. I'm trying to keep a positive attitude through this whole experience but it's tough! I'm having nightmares about this upcoming radiation treatment that's glooming on the horizon. I spent hours and hours yesterday researching websites and reading page after page of data and other peoples tales of what to expect. And the bottom line is that it's out of my hands! What's going to happen is going to happen. I just have to sit here and take it and try to make the best of a bad situation.
One of the good things about reading and re-reading all the information yesterday is that it's reminding me of some of the things that I need to prepare for like drinking plenty of water and finding out what foods other people found that tasted better to them and such.
The nurses keep telling me that everyone reacts differently to the treatment and it's easier for some than others.

Back to a positive note here....I'm really looking forward to getting back to normal and feeling good for the rest of the month. Don't have any major plans, but hopefully sometime next week will be able to get some water under the keel of my boat.

This morning is going to be the first day in a long time that I'll be able to take a shower without saran wrap!!!!!!!!! I just have a band-aid on the PICC line hole now and after my shower, I might just be able to put nothing on it all.

That's all for now. Hope everyone has a nice weekend. It's supposed to get to 75 degrees here. Can you believe that for January!