it's been awhile since I've seen a post from Kirmy...anyone heard from her? Sorry if I missed a post.
Hello!
Well.....it's been a journey. I have only one chemo to go. The last treatment came close to killing me after I had an anphalactic reaction. The after effects were shite too...so I've been living the zombie quiet life. So so far here is an impressive list of the side effects from my scorned Earth treatment:
Hair loss
Lost my eyelashes and laterally my tears so I have dry eye
Hands and feet are peeling
Fingernails are flaking off
Lost my oral and gut mucosa so have systemic thrush from mouth to anus
Uncontrollable diahorrea when I'm sleeping...its a fucking thing!
Dry skin
Chemically induced and sudden menopause...like full fucking on Oh my God...so full on
Insomnia
Aphasia
Dizziness
Ringing in my left ear
Balance issues intermittently
Loss of short and long term memory
Fibrosis of the veins in my left arm
Muscle loss
Calcium loss
Servere depletion of my white cells
Liver and kidney damage ( recovering)
Muscle loss
On a plus side I have no pubic hair so I don't have to sort the bikini line. That's it..that's all I've got...oh and not dying of cancer.
So I'm muddling on with my dementia, menopause and General systemic fuckery waiting for the sun to come out from behind the poisionus cloud of chemo. The tumour formally known as Warwick is undetectable when I go fishing for him. So I'm guessing I'm in the clear there. Now if I can just not relapse and peg out or develop secondary leukaemia from the chemo then I'm good.
Surgery is within the next month and a half and the radiation therapy for a month. After that I'm going on holiday and taking up dangerous hobbies.
So yeh I'm here still.....and I'm winning even if the vantage point is skewed by the horribleness of it all.
Meh.