Three Lovely Years!

Three years ago Keith and I got married and I love him more now than ever! Despite this cancer crap I'm a lucky fucker (well at least in some ways).

I had another Herceptin drip today. My heart rate is still a concern, but we're just going to monitor it for now. The good news today is that my tumor markers are down (they're down to 67 from 133). This is still higher than normal levels, but it is going in the right direction.

I'm feeling really pretty good after the last round. I started taking an iron supplement and it is making a huge difference (that and all that beef broth I've been forcing down). Red (the dog) and I went for a 3.5 mile walk today. I usually get between 2 and 3 miles in, but when I'm tired we do several short walks. Doing a "full pull" is something that I haven't felt energetic enough to commit to in a while.

There are however, a lot of little niggley side effects. I have crazy twitching muscles (right now it is a little muscle right below my right eye), hot flashes (hello chemical menopause), taste buds that don't taste much (therefore I eat more, urgh), my GI tract is always messed up in some way no matter what I do. Now, none of these are terrible (somedays the hot flashes are really intense - I'm trying to find a pattern there, but no luck so far) but they are pretty annoying. The reality is, if these are my only problems, I'm doing pretty well.