The Results Are In!

I know you all have been most anxiously waiting for the conclusion of the follow-up doctor's appointment. So here we are. Remember how I told you all Craig tried to prepare me for a maybe not so awesome response? Well he was unfortunately right. It turns out that the drug I was on failed, and there was proof to show that. That means, new drugs and a new protocol. I will be on a 2 kinds of chemotherapy drugs, some sort of new hormone thing I have never been on, and 2 other drugs that I have been consistently on. Doesn't that sound fun!? That is a lot of drugs. Wow. It will be good though because one of the chemo drugs is a derivative of a chemo drug I was on before which was awesome. I am much more comfortable with this therapy. This will be a little bit harder protocol though because I will be out getting chemo every Friday. We'll deal. The first treatment in the new protocol is Friday the 15th next week. The oncologist did not give chemo yesterday because he likes to break the chemo cycles when he is changing it. I was already overdue for another chemo so that is probably the fastest to get it. I super want it. I am ready to get the better drugs and get this thing going. The whole drug side effects will be pretty much the same except for I will probably lose all my hair so I will probably be getting a chemo cut this week. It is just so messy to try to save any of it and it is depressing when you get handfuls of hair. A new thing that I have never experienced that people get is a sort of rash on your face that resembles acne. How awesome is that to have in your 30s? :) Apparently if you get this rash it is an indicator the chemo is doing a good job for you, so I expect to get it. At the CTCA they called it the "war rash" which totally cracked me up. As for the procedure, not happening yet. We are going to do a little chemo and see if it is necessary, I bet it will be because I am super lucky that way. Anyway, they can do this thing a bunch of times and that is what I am hoping to avoid. It is actually a short procedure, so it is almost in my comfort zone, but I will do what I have to.

So that's the news. Not what I had hoped to report, but such is the way of the whole cancer treatment at times. This is the only time a drug has failed me in 4 years so that's pretty good.

I think I may go shopping for new hats today. :) Especially winter hats, it is super cold out when you have a bald head!