| April 14, 2002- Today's the second day after my chemo and usually by now I'd be having a few mouth problems, but for some reason I'm not getting any with this treatment. Hey, I'm not complaining, the less bad side effects the better. Today had to be my lazy day, I didn't do anything at all. I didn't even get out of my pajamas, it was very relaxing. I think the fact that I didn't do anything was mainly due to the lack of sleep from last night. I lay awake in bed last night for endless hours, it was horrible. I wanted to go to sleep becuase my stomach wasn't feeling to hot, but when I got in bed I just couldn't sleep. I think I went to bed at 11 o'clock. Then around 2 am I got up and went downstairs to watch TV cuase I couldn't sleep. I went back up to bed around 3 am, and the last time I looked at my clock it was almost 4. I really don't know when I got to sleep but it was very late. Then I had to get up at 6 to take my pill and I couldn't get back to sleep after that. So at most I got two hours of sleep last night. I think they told me that was one of the side effects from the steroid I'm on, not being able to sleep. I never wasn't able to get to sleep before so I really wasn't expecting it, but it wasn't fun at all. I've never had insomnia but I would imagine that it's something like what I went through last night. And I didn't have anything on my mind either, all I wanted was to get to sleep but it just wasn't happening. Yesterday I went out to the mall to go shopping with my sister. Not really one of the best things to do when she's buying clothes for herself and dragging me around the women's section of ever store in the mall, but it was better than being stuck at home. I had fun and I got to buy some nice clothes for myself too which made the day even better. Actually, I went with her with the intent of buying a video game, but when I saw some of the great sales they had going on I just couldn't see spending money on a game when I could get some nice clothes at a decent price instead. All in all this chemo has been the best one yet. I can't explain why, I'm just handling it very well with minimal side effects so far. Let's just hope it stays that way. I did notice something tonight though. I took a bath, something that I haven't done in a long long time (I'm more of the shower type), but I wanted to take a nice hot relaxing bath before I went to sleep tonight so I did. As the water was draining I noticed a lot of loose hair heading towards the drain. I was hoping that the hair on my head was the only hair I'd lose, but it looks like it may not be that way. Already I've lost hair in other places and it ain't pleasant to talk about. I still have hair on my arms and legs and chest, but let's just say I'm losing hair in some other more private areas. Oh well, it'll grow back. |