Friends & Fluids

Slept a solid 13 hours straight last night and mustered up the energy to show up for my physical therapy appointment. I’m glad I didn’t back out like I wanted to as I always feel better when I’m there and get the job done.

Next appointment today was psychotherapy through the integrative medicine team at Powers Health. As expected, I’m “situational depressed” and have adjustment anxiety and am working with an amazing therapist to help me with coping. We talked about a number of topics including:

Loss of Independence
Grieving of my mom and comparing my cancer journey to hers
Insecurity of missing work, staying on top of tech/AI during my leave of absence
Physical changes to my body (hair loss, loss of taste, muscle loss, etc)
Nutrition concerns
Relationship stress/burden of my disease to others
Scan results and fear of future treatment outcomes

There are so many other topics I didn’t cover here but these are the ones I grapple with daily.

Leslie took me to breakfast today before she dropped me off at the cancer center and then just brought me soup/sandwiches from Sandwich City which will take care of my dinner tonight too.

I’m sitting in the infusion chair and have Zofran, Dex, Saline pumping in to my body so I’m doing all I can to stay ahead of the side effects. Angela will bring me home from here and I’ll be back tomorrow for labs and a check in with Dr Sidani and Erica. Like I said before, cancer is a full time job:(