Where I have not gone in a long while........a return to normal. Yesterday marked a new milestone, the first day in 20 weeks that, instead of getting chemo, I am just going to continue to get better. I was hoping it would be a dramatic change, but, it is proving slow, but steady.
The last 2 nights, I slept without waking up. I didn't realize how much my sleep was impacted until it actually was different. Also, food is beginning to taste more normal, although not completely the same. Finally, I am hoping this cold, which arrive in early November, will finally get better!
Today I am sitting at Mayo getting all sorts of post-chemo tests. I am really encouraged (read, moved to tears) by the change in my mammogram. One silly change, since I have lost weight, the mammogram doesn't hurt nearly as much as it did! Here's the important change: this is my image from the beginning
The barbell shape is a titanium marker, the mass around it is the tumor.
Here is the image now, taken badly with my phone camera, but, all I can really see, is the end of the marker, near the right edge of this photo, near the middle:
The first photo is a closeup image, so the scale is misleading, but, I am so very encouraged! There is no white at all around it! Mark and I talk to my doctor tomorrow to get the whole story. For now, my load has lifted. Thank you for all the prayers, support, and words of encouragement. They worked.