A week and a day
That is how long it has been since my last treatment. And I am sort of starting to feel like a complete human being again. Sort of…. Every day gets closer. I just have to keep telling myself that. Depression keeps wanting to intrude upon my life and I keep fighting it back, some days are easier than others. Usually the easiest way for me to get it to go away is to think about my support team and my family and how awesome they are. Another way is to do what I did today, which is go shopping. My mom took me to my appt with the radiologist today and afterwords we went and bought school supplies and backpacks for this school supply drive that my Dad’s work is doing. It was great, we picked out so much stuff, I had a ton of fun (in a subdued kind of way, I was pretty tired by that point) and it made me rememember how much I love doing things for other people.
The radiologist is nice, he talked kind of fast though which hurt my head a little. I can’t process fast talkers lately, which is funny since I am a fast talker myself. Oh well. I meet with him again next week to start the preliminary stuff and then radiation starts a couple weeks after that, for 6 1/2 weeks Mon-Fri. He said, which tons of people told me, that the side effects are mostly limited to fatigue and the sunburning effect. I am so looking forward to being able to do normal things like drive and read and hold an entire conversation without losing my train of thought.
My cat seems to be doing well since the scare he gave me two weeks ago. He gets to eat canned food so is loving that. He seems to be losing some weight too so I love that. He weighed 14 pounds when they weighed him. He always has been big so I just deal with it. He is like a big thug, which makes sense since he was a stray before I got him. If he was human, I imagine he would make a good thug for the mob. Not too bright but good at beating people up. Which Malky does whenever he sees another cat. He loves all people and dogs, he just hates other cats.
I am currently reading a collection of short stories called Geektastic. I am really enjoying it! It comes out in hardcover in August and I reccommend it to all. Also, the fact that it is short stories means that I do not get as frustrated with the whole “I can’t read more than 10 minutes at a time” thing.
Now…nap time…
Faith I am so glad to hear that slowly but surely you are feeling better. I know you still have stuff left to do, but there are plenty of us cheering for you along the way. If you need another tool to help fight the bad days just remember there are HUNDREDS of people from the Book Babe event who, although they may not know you on a deep personal level love you and are there to support you in this fight
YEA FAITH!!!!!
I’m glad to hear your kitty is doing better. I have a pug and can relate to the “if he was a human he wouldn’t be very bright” idea. He’s lovable and has a good personality though so I suppose things even out. Best wishes always!!!!