Dodged a bullet



Yesterday I was able to walk and move around relatively well all day.  WoooHooo!  The bone pain was definately there but way WAY less severe than it was last cycle.  It is still sticking around today too apparantly but I still feel like I dodged a bullet.   Claritin, Aleve, and glutimate powder are my super heroes!  I will be honest- a little part of me hoped all these extra efforts wouldn't work.  Well- the glutimate powder part anyway- and maybe that didn't help at all but since I added the combo of all 3 I don't know which was magic and which wasn't....  The glutimate comes in a packet- it is powder.  I have been adding it to my morning breakfast smoothie which consists of OJ, milk, and vanilla protein powder.  These 3 are palatable and somewhat like an Orange Julius.  But adding the glutimate powder- ugh.  It is like adding sand.  It is gritty and makes the smoothie very foamy and gross.  It doesn't add any flavor but frankly- when it adds sand grit, who cares if it adds flavor or not. 

Last night I got my neulasta shot in the mail.  I get to give it to myself next time.  Not sure if I told you all about my experience with this last week or not.  I had to go get it at the hospital- I haven't been going all the way downtown for my neulasta because it is just too far away, but even getting it at the local hospital is time consuming.  I had a plan of telling the doctors that I was just going to do it myself, so I could get it at home.  Then I was going to just find a willing neighbor to give it to me.  We have a neighbor that is medically trained, as well as a couple of diabetics on the street.  I figured, on shot day- one of them would be home and I could sucker them into jabbing it into me.  Not so lucky.  They told me that if I was going to do it at home, then I would have to give myself the shot in the hospital so they could watch me do it.  sigh......  I am not scared of needles, and I have pierced many many things- on other people as well as myself but that was in my wild days and a shot seems somehow more scary.  Well, they gave me the shot, I was holding it and holding a handful of fat on my belly- I hyperventilated a bit and jabbed it in.  Yeah!  I did it!  And it didn't even hurt at all.  phew!  So I got the okay to do it at home :)  That is one less appointment I will have which is pretty sweet!

The insurance delivered it to my door next day air- it came in a huge cooler with ice packs (I need to keep it refridgerated)  It is pretty funny that they wasted this huge box- the box the shot came in is the smallest container in there- and there is only 1, so after next cycle they will have to send me another one of these packages!
 

It has been so nice having my mom here.  She has helped out so much with the kids and she has made me a ton of scarves.  Her birthday was on monday and I was way too weak to do anything so she made her own birthday cake!  Too bad it tastes like cardboard just like everything else :(  If you know me, you know it is a very hard thing for me to not like cake.