3 Month Checkup

Wil and I both feel weird when we don't go to the Cancer Center for awhile. We have been so use to going almost every week, and now we only go every 6 weeks or so.

Enjoying a local baseball game

I had labs and an exam this past Monday with my oncologist, Dr. Skinner. My labs looked great! My CA-125 (my blood marker that doesn't really react with my tumors) was 4.7. Before surgery the second time it was around 7. My potassium level is finally normal but I'm still having to take 2 horse pills twice a day for them. Dr. Skinner said my exam looked the best that it has been. She is looking into another blood cancer marker that MD Anderson has been researching to see if I'm a candidate for it.

My hair is growing back in! It came in like this last time, soft and straight. It was only after it got some length, did it start to curl. We will see what it does this time! I'm happy to have eyelashes and my eyebrows back! I didn't mind the bald head as much as not having those.

I still have my port-a-cath in. I plan on keeping it for awhile. I have to go get it flushed every 6 weeks to keep it patent. It flushed great on Monday, thanks to my great nurse and friend, Lydia :) My port is still hard to access since it is tilted. There are few that I trust to access me, and she is the best!

Wil and I are still trying to eat healthy and get back into shape. My "yay we finished chemo" present was a FitBit Charge HR. I absolutely love it, especially when I am in competitions with people. It motivates me to get my steps in and be more active.

Thanks for all of the continued prayers. Please pray for my good friends, Tracy and Kim. I am close with both of them and have known them since my first bout with cancer. Tracy is battling a port infection and cancer yet again. Kim's cancer has come back and started a new chemo but her cancer has spread to her liver.

Got to see our friend Tracy when I got my port flushed