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First Taxol & Thanksgiving

 On Tuesday, I had my first chemotherapy for the new regime which is Taxol. It's a less aggressive treatment than the A/C but can still have some side effects. Fortunately, something in my mind told me that it would probably be wise to have Jeff join me for this first cycle in the new treatment rather than Emily. Why? Because Emily is like her mother and has some super fun anxiety. When things don't go the way we thought they would, we panic. Even if everything is actually under control, we panic. It's just the way it is. It sucks and it's not very fun. In hindsight, I'm super glad I had Jeff come instead. We got there and I had my blood drawn and a visit with my medical oncologist. I just love her. My whole team is awesome. She asked me what we were going to be doing for Thanksgiving and I said I was going to get to see my grandbabies for the first time, in person, since Labor Day. She encouraged me to make the most of it but take a nap if I got tired during the da...

Finishing A/C, Side Effects, a Field Trip and Genetics

 I realized at the wee hours of the morning, when my bladder decided yet again to be annoying, that I never posted an update after my last infusion. I'm just going to go ahead and blame chemo brain. Chemo brain is definitely in the top five of irritating things about chemotherapy. I will literally be talking and totally forget what I was saying. Most of us experience this sort of "brain fart" from time to time but with chemo brain...it's a daily occurrence. It's so annoying. Add this to my lovely affliction of ADHD and it's amazing I can ever actually get anything accomplished.  For real, last Thursday it took me about 2 hours to do something that should have taken me less than 20 minutes because I kept getting distracted, starting something else and never finishing anything at all. Finally I realized what I was doing and stopped, forced myself to focus and got things done. But sheesh! I had my very last infusion of A/C (aka "The Red Devil") on Novem...