57th Birthday 9/13/2011

As the nurses have advised and warned me, chemotherapy affects are "cumulative". This means they get worse as time goes on. So true to their form, the next couple weeks were not fun.  I got a "burn" on the ball of my right foot, I thought from stepping outside for a second in the hot sun. It ws extremely painful and difficult to walk.  But......I know better than to say "what next", no, no,no, wrong question. One day at a time.  Lots of nausea and just plan feeling weak and miserable. It was hard to even think of doing this one more time. Every day just seems like forever.  I just want to feel good again!! Ugh!

Then in the middle of all this comes my 57th birthday, quite anticlimatic, but nevertheless.......my birthday. Traditionally Dale and I (and whoever else can from the family) have gone out to McGraths for my birthday since I love seafood, and he loves the pictures they take there.  (he has one from every year since we got married on his bedside table!! what a nut!) So we went........it was difficult, and the food didn't taste very good to me, not because it isn't good, but because food just doesn't taste good on chemotherapy. 

So Dale is all excited to get my picture taken and the waiter informs us their camera is broken!! Fortunately I have my cell phone and we get him to take a picture with it.  This is how it turned out:



Dale likes the bald head, personally
I'm looking forward to hair again!