The light at the end . . .
Written Oct 3, 2011 10:31pm
I now have only 5 weeks of chemo left. I am still feeling pretty decent, although I do feel the fatigue sometimes. I was able to receive treatment again last Friday, and it seems that I will continue to be able to be treated because these Neupogene shots that I get during the week are doing the trick of keeping my wbc count up. I will definitely have a party when chemo is over!!!!
I have been growing some hair back. For some reason I have not lost my hair with the Taxol, and so my hair has been growing back slowly over the past few weeks. I now have a soft covering on my head that is about a centimeter long. I have even been wearing it out without a hat a lot lately. It looks really really short, but I am tired of always wearing hats and scarves! I am just trying to pretend that I am stylish enough to wear my hair that short intentionally!!
I got a speeding ticket this week. Branden got one a few weeks ago, so I guess we have both been officially welcomed to Utah now! That was the first ticket I have gotten in 20 years!! (Not that I’ve never been pulled over all that time.) Apparently my chemo look and my pitiful driver’s license picture didn’t elicit much pity from the police officer! You would think that all this cancer stuff would at least be good for getting me out of a ticket! But the good news is that I didn’t really care!!
My ticket was in American Fork, which is the same place that my wallet was stolen earlier this summer. I was thinking later that I should have told the officer that since they never recovered my wallet (despite the fact that I filled out 3 different police reports for locations that my credit card had been used and where there were cameras) that maybe he could let me out of the ticket and we could call it even. I wonder if he would have gone for it?!!
Branden and I are going to celebrate our 14th anniversary this weekend. We are going to stay overnight up in Salt Lake and do some fun stuff downtown Friday night. I am so grateful to have such a wonderful husband. I love you Branden!!!
