Well, here I am. Slowly coming out of my funk. This time was quite different from the last two. I didn't have the all over body aches and extreme weakness like I had the first two. So, I felt pretty good over the weekend and started feeling crummy yesterday. But, life goes on and we were out of Cheerios. So, off to Walmart I go. Does anybody ever go to Walmart and just get what's on your list?? If you do, liar liar, pants on fire. No one does that!! So, anyway, get home, unpack, eat lunch and off to the couch. My taste buds are numb so everything kinda tastes like cardboard. I could each dog chow and not know the difference. So, I'm on the couch and this strange odor is coming from the boy's bathroom. Well, I'm thinking, who didn't flush this time?? So I put on my body armor (kind of like an astronaut's suit) which is what I do whenever I enter their bathroom and start to look for the source of the odor. To my surprise, the toilet had been flushed! Wow, that's a first. Upon examining the area where the toilet and floor meet, I notice a strange looking yellow substance. PEE. How can a child, or two, hit a basketball goal 200 yards out, blindfolded and behind his back and not hit the blessed toilet???????? What is up with boys who pee everywhere except inside the commode??? I've even cleaned pee of the top of the tank? Whattup with that???? You're not putting out a fire and it's not water you're squirting. It's pee. Come on people, pee. It stinks and it belongs in the toilet. Not on the floor, not on the seat, not on the wall and not on the shower curtain. Stop treating Mr. Happy like he's a toy and aim boys, aim!!! If you have to sit down to go, then so be it. But stop peeing all over the place!!!! So, I've decided the next time I find that strange looking yellow substance anywhere at all, I'll not be the one cleaning it up. Just a warning to those who live in my house or those who visit my house who can pee standing up. Aim, boys, aim.
Anyhow, one of the medicines I'm getting along with the chemo is called Herceptin which is a hormone. So, now, not only do I have no taste buds, no hair, no pretty fingernails, and no left boob, I also have hot flashes. Holy cow, I've heard of these things but never experienced one until now. They start mid abdomen and slowly climb my trunk until I'm so hot you could cook a hamburger on my little stubbly head. How you old women out there deal with these things is a mystery to me. I had to get up in the middle of the night over the weekend and push the air down to 72. And there's Michael, snoring, with 16 blankets on the bed and I'm having a barbecue on the top of my head. Nothin' right about that! Did I mention the eye twitching? After treatment, my left eye twitches for a week or so. How weird is that?? So, no, I'm not winking at you. It's the twitch!
My next surgery to complete my reconstruction is scheduled for July. Yeah!!! I asked Dr. Timmons what is the step after that. He told me I needed to decided whether or not I wanted a nipple on the new boob. Well, how do you do that I asked. What he told me I was not prepared for. He would take skin from the woo woo (you know what I'm talkin' about) and make a nipple. The recuperation time for that surgery would be about 3 weeks. So, from now on you can call me uni-nipple. Uh Uh, aint happin'. A sharp knife is not coming near my woo woo. Plus, I'd have a permanent head light on, all the time! Ok, TMI, I know. But, you chose to read my blog. No one forced you. My life is an open book. Mostly. Have a great day, and aim boys, aim.
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Good luck with improving the household aim! I think the option to aim or clean is the way to go... And good call on the uni-nip... 'cause um, ouch!! Hope you're feeling strong today (you know, 'cause ya ARE!!!)
ReplyDeleteLove ya!
Allen