Last AC Chemo done, next up: T chemo!

I had my last AC chemo treatment yesterday, and as per usual, I felt great in the morning and I felt terrible after! This is normal. All my bloodwork has been good, I've been tolerating the chemo very well. I would expect to continue feel a little crummy for the next few days, then start that upward arc back to feeling normal next week. In two weeks, I'll have my first T treatment, and that'll come with new challenges (mostly trying to minimize neuropathy, because nerve damage takes a long time to heal, if it heals at all). 

I have been struggling with the taste of saline (which is used constantly to flush out the port) -- it's weird because I'm not eating anything but when the fluid goes in, I taste it and it kind of tastes like nail polish. This time, I tried chewing gum (it helped) and sucking on lemon drops (not strong enough to overpower it! and, when I tried it with the infusion of anti-nausea meds that -- again, are injected directly into my bloodstream but I somehow also taste in my mouth -- taste like artificial banana, it just combined into a very unpleasant experience). Lessons learned. The lemon drops are very good and they'll just be a normal candy for me!

It's going to be 100 degrees, and the lawn is a little shaggy, but I'm just going to leave it alone because this is still a rest day, and I don't think it's great for grass to have to deal with mowing and extreme heat. Maybe next week.

I've got a mammogram next week to see if the AC has shrunk the areas of interest, and maybe some other scans as well, but nothing else has been scheduled yet. In two weeks, T (taxol) treatments start, and those will be every week instead of every other week. I'll have 12 of those. After that: mastectomy! (and then radiation.) So there's still a long way to go, but it's nice to be done with one part!

I'm feeling good today. Ate breakfast, took my meds, taking it easy.