Too sexy for my hair: a cancer blog

Thursday, January 19, 2006

Out With The Old, In With The New

Oh boy, Where do I start? My body and the chemotherapy drug Taxol has had a on and off relationship for about a year and a half so I find it strange that my body has had an allergic response to the last four Taxol treatments. Dr. says it is time we try a new form of therapy. Thats a no brainer. I had a CT Scan this last Tuesday and I sit here and write the evening before my DR. appointment which is tomorrow (Friday) morning. Yes bright and early going on 3+ years I will sit down with my DR. along with my husband and my mother and review my CT Scan and then my DR. will recommend a new chemotherapy drug accordingly. I have had a few anxiety attacks this week. Very common right after a CT Scan.

I wonder will this new treatment be my miracle drug? I do hope so because just between you and I, I am sick and tired of being sick and tired!

New Years Day was stormy in my home town of Sacramento. So stormy that it took down a very large tree in are back yard. This tree crushed are gazebo and damaged parts of are house and took down our electrical box. No worries, our home insurance will cover the damage. We hated that tree anyways, it was ugly as sin... I think it had some kind of disease. At first I was pretty stressed until I realized that the tree we hated is now gone, we get to build a new gazebo, and fence, and we now have a new up to code electricty box.

This week I watched the "trash guy" crush are trash can... he stuck his head outside the window of the truck and said "you better order a new trash can miss." Ya, that was one other no brainer. So we get a new trash can as well.

I began to think for a second that this was going to be a year of bad luck. Then I took a step back and saw that everything old was being taken from us and was being replaced by something new.

Let this new therapy wipe out the diseased parts of me? Let me start a new?