Time keeps marching on

Today, I went to radiation, got a massage, and then came home and took a four hour nap. I slept for four hours! It is incredible that I am able to do that. I am not a napper by nature and can only nap when I am sick. I lay down on my bed, closed my eyes and after about five minutes, swore that I would not sleep. I thought about getting up and doing something, any one of the hundreds of tasks that await me. But I resisted, knowing that my body was exhausted. The next thing I knew, I rolled over, looked at the clock and it was 3:00 in the afternoon.

The radiation and chemo have been a bit tough just because I get this urge to sleep all day. My skin is not doing so well. It's pretty sore and blistery so my radiation oncologist has decided to give me a break this week. I will start again next Monday. I will still finish my radiation by the end of the month. It will be a relief. I will then have the month of September free for recuperation.

The month of September will be a wild one. My sister Deb is coming out to be with me and I am thankful that she is. She will be arriving on Mario's birthday and will be here to help me out with his birthday party. Thank goodness! Then at the end of the month, I'm taking off for a bit of a break. A friend from Ireland and I are going to do a bit of touring around the south of Spain for a week. I am going to spend a few days in Barcelona too. It will be good to get away from the messy house and the reminders of what lays ahead in October. I will have a chance to eat some good food, drink some wine, see some beautiful architecture, and spend some time with an old friend.

As it stands at the moment, when I get back, I will have a week to prepare for my surgery. I will be able to have both the mastectomy and the hysterectomy at the same time but it looks like I will have to have a full hysterectomy, complete with the major incision all the way across my gut. I was hoping for laproscopic surgery but my medical oncologist recommends doing the full-blown hysterectomy, leaving nothing behind. I tend to agree with him. Consequently, it will be quite a long recovery but now is the time. I am free to take as long as I need to get better. And I'd rather not have to deal with any of this again.

Thank you all for your thoughts and support. Your help has meant a lot to me. I think I will be doing fine until October. I will keep you all up to date and in the loop.