It feels somehow official that I've completed chemotherapy now that I've gotten my port-a-cath out; yes, yesterday under local anesthesia, I got my port out--YAY!!! The interventional radiology nurses were kinda disapproving the fact that I didn't want to be sedated but I was able to talk the radiologist into performing the procedure with just some local. Surprising, I haven't even had a lot of pain, a little discomfort last night but I didn't even have to take any Tylenol or Advil for it.
Got my port out just in time as I will be starting radiation on Monday. Next Monday will start my countdown to 7 weeks of daily weekday visits to the basement of the building that I work in to lay in a mold made of my upper body for 10 minutes while I get zapped with 2 different beams--how exciting does that sound?!
This past week has been a crazy one at work. I've come home late and gone straight to bed most of the days neglecting this blog. I guess I am closer to normal than I thought--no more foreign body in my chest, boring life that lets me work long hours. Normal is good, especially if I were to compare it to the past several months but I think it may be time to work on a new normal. Just need to figure out what I want my new normal to be!
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