Mostly I’ve had good energy and been doing a lot of stuff but also taking two hour naps.

Monday I got up at 6:15 for a swim. I had a great swim – 750m – then came home and slept for 2 hours. I was also able to do 20 minutes of boxing and some work spackling and caulking. It was a really productive day.

Tuesday I had an 8am meeting. I managed a lot of work, but was beat by 4pm and napped for 2 hours.

Today, I slept a little later before swimming, ran an errand that involved 40 minutes of driving, then came home and napped for 45 minutes.

I am now at the point where my blood levels should be rebounding. I have energy but I tire easily. I also have some tenderness on my tongue which means I’m not apt to eat acidic food, but it isn’t really bothersome. Oh and I still have some hair!

In some ways, I’m feeling like a chemo faker – I feel like this is easier than it should be. It is certainly easier than I remember it being. The hair thing is what is throwing me off the most. My head is shaved to a stubble. The hair is thin, but it is definitely still there. I keep wondering when it will fall out. Likely not until after the next treatment. It is weird because both taxotere and cytoxan have hair loss as side effects.

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I’ve gotten pretty good at making beanies out of fleece. They seem to be my go to head covering. If I think I’ll be going indoors, I wear a thinner one. One challenge winter has, is that you need a warm hat for outside, but when you get inside it can be too warm.

I don’t have a sense of what is to come after chemo – or at least when it will come. Radiation will likely happen, but I’m not sure how long after chemo – especially if I’m doing this well with the chemo.

It does make me want to book a ski trip for late January, early February. I have a phone appointment with my oncologist January 16. I saw chemo on my schedule for the 17th and thought I should remove it because my last chemo is December 27 – totally forgetting that I will have herceptin every 3 weeks for a year. That is still hard to get my head around.

It does mean that I should be able to plan a ski vacation in the week or two after that. I will need to call my oncologist and ask.

And now, I’m doing to get out of my comfy bed/bean bag and do some trim painting 🙂