My, how time flies!

My, MY how time flies when you're having...well, not fun, but something or another. Yesterday marked the beginning of the last week of external radiation (week 5 of 5!) and today is my second-to-last chemo treatment. Three weeks of internal radiation to go, starting either next week or the week after, and then I can start the countdown clock to remission.

Of course, I knew this time would come, but I have to admit, it seemed realllllllly far away at times. After being unemployed for so long, having to be somewhere at a certain time every single day for weeks on end was kind of a shock to the system, especially when I'm generally feeling too horrible to want to go anywhere in the first place.

But it's almost over! Wow! That is almost shocking when I think about it now.

Last night was a horrible night. All of it...I think I slept maybe from about midnight until 2, and then tiny bits of sleep in between trips to the bathroom from then on. I finally got up at a little before 7. I guess it's a good thing that all I have to do today is get punctured and lay in my happy little recliner at chemo. I'll probably conk out on Aimee at some point, but I guess I'm allowed to. She'll understand.

Needless to say, tummy not happy. That's not a good sign, either. I usually get the diarrhea starting a couple of days after chemo. It's kind of become routine--chemo, then diarrhea and massive attempts at hydration and stopping the diarrhea. This week I'm running behind before I even start, which makes the job a whole lot harder. Grr.

All the ladies at radiation yesterday loved the green hair. I'm sure the chemo nurses will too. The funny part was all the other people-- other patients, folks in the lab, etc-- who weren't in on the joke, staring at me and me forgetting that I had green hair and wondering what they thought was so interesting. In the cancer center, anything goes, but I forget about the rest of the world.

Let's see, is there anything else to report? I can't think of anything. I have tons of email I should be sitting down and returning...if I owe you one, I promise I will get there, just probably not today. Other than my lovely sleepless night of misery and the impending end of phase 1 of radiation and chemo, I don't think I have anything else medical to update. I feel like total hammered crap, to sum up, but that's not anything new or particularly noteworthy, that's a normal state of being, so I guess that's about all for today.

I mainly wanted to post a few more green hair glamour shots. For some reason, we just can not get the green to show up well in photos and I don't understand why. The streaks are WAY, way, WAY greener in person. They're a really nice, rich pretty color. I have no idea how long they'll last ("5-10 shampoos" says the bottle; could be a week, could be a month) but at least I can say that I dyed my hair green before I was 40, right?

And for some reason, my eyes look really strangely big in these photos, which makes me look like some bizarre anime character, which I also do not understand, but oh well. I've used up all of my waste-able time, and I have to go get in the shower now so I can be clean and pretty to get punctured and have toxic chemicals pumped through my veins. Such is the glamour of my life.