Week 6--An unusual week

Hi everyone,

First, here is a picture of Carol and her new ear rings and also a picture of her with our friends.  Last night we went out to dinner and then went to these gardens that were decorated for Christmas. It was pretty cool and doesn’t Carol look cute too J?

 

I apologize for not keeping this more up to date but it has been a very unusual week. The first part went normally and I was sick for the first 3-4 days and it was pretty bad. But then, instead of getting back to normal I started feeling really dizzy and I also had to deal with the worst heartburn I have ever had.

 

First to the dizzies…One of my routine tests keeps showing that my Vitamin D levels are low or as the doctor says “Profoundly Low”. I can't remember the exact number but I was so far out of normal range that it wasn’t funny. Anyway, I asked him what we should do and he prescribed a Vitamin supplement and we would check it in 6 months. When I asked him what he would be worried about if a patient had consistently low Vitamin D levels he said “risk of breast cancer…if you were a woman” J Since I am not a woman I am not sure if we worry too much about the Vitamin D until we do another test in 6  months. I only bring it up because the dizziness I felt after this week’s chemo felt like it was fairly serious and was not just a little light headedness…I don't know how to describe it but I think you know what I mean when you can just tell that something is not right with your body. Either it’s a chemical imbalance or something else is out of whack, doesn’t matter…you can just tell right?? Well that is how I feel about this dizziness. This is not the kind of dizziness where you feel a little light headed if you get up too quick…this is the kind of dizziness where you have to hold on to the wall while you walk down the hall or you will stumble. I have to grab hold of the kitchen counters to get myself around the kitchen.

I know this is not right so I will be calling him  tomorrow to see what he says. I know he is going to want blood so we will see what we see. Something is not right inside me J

 

Besides that, this week has been spent dealing with bad, bad heartburn. This is a known side effect of one of the drugs..(I can't remember which one right now) so I need to let him know about that. Its really bad, to the point where even a glass of water feels like I drank some broken glass. Laying down in bed is really tough too because it seems to make it worse.

 

So between the heartburn and this weird dizziness it has not been a normal week. It hasn’t been horrible either though. I guess I will take dizzy over nauseous any day, except this has me kind of worried until we figure out what is causing it…it might not even be chemo related, maybe something else is messed up inside.

Oh well, we will figure it out this week I’m sure.

This is a special week also..my brother and his son are coming down from upstate NY to visit us for a week and we can't wait to see them. My nephew is spending some time teaching English in China so I’m sure he will have some interesting stuff to talk about!!!!

 

I will let everyone know what is going on with me after next week. It is probably just something temporarily out of whack so we will figure it out and fix it!!!

 

Peace and Love to you!

John and Carol..