littleprincess's Cancer Blog
June 4, 2008
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Today is my first day to really feel good. I haven’t taken any drugs! So I’ve been doing housework. Almost back to normal for a short time.
The crappy part, literally. I’ve never been regular to begin with, but there’s some crazy stuff going on inside of me. The stool softeners they sent me home with haven’t really helped. The nurse told me that by taking 2 a day I would probably get diarrhea. Nope! It still hurts when I go. I’ve been getting stomach cramps (upper abdomen), so of course I think I’m blocked or have a tumor up there! But I get hungry. Does that mean things are moving, maybe just slower? Hopefully with me moving around more it will get better.
I’m reading a book. Its a woman’s story about growing up during the Depression. Several of the chapters talk about medicine, and how people doctored themselves. It was interesting, but she had no remedies for cancer. One of our longterm goals is to have enough land to be pretty self sufficient. Except neither one of us could raise an animal then send it to the butcher. Make no mistake, we are meat eaters! But, we’re bleeding hearts, too! I like my steak to come from an anonymous donor. I want a milk cow now. I vaguely remember getting fresh milk from a dairy growing up, until the government cracked down on that. Its supposed to be bad to drink/eat non-pasteurized products. Who knows? I’m kind of sick of hearing how bad everything is for you.
I got a wonderful fruit basket yesterday. Yummy! I haven’t looked into it yet, but can anyone tell me why you can’t have fresh fruit and vegetables during chemo?
I took my first bath yesterday. Yes, I’ve been showering. It was nice to soak, but a little difficult to wash and rinse my hair. My abs weren’t quite ready for that.
Well, I’m going to look up phlebitis.
XOXO
07.07.08 - 
Thanks for your support -
Gah, I’m at that stage where I can’t have fresh fruit and vegetables. You can have them if you cook them properly. The sole reason is because your immune system is so low and have no way of fighting off a disease that might come with eating them. You’ll come to a point where some weeks it’s okay and some it’s just not. It tends to fluctuate. You’d think these things would be best for you but I just ate a whole carton of strawberries and grapes last week, I’m feeling pretty good.I’ve grown quite lax in that area though. Don’t follow me just in case!
All my vegetarian and vegan friends are insisting I see THEIR nutritinoist – one is even ofering to pay for it so I can go. Somehow they all believe this is the time I should change a lifetime of eating patterns. So far this is making me angrier than anything.
As to the constipation, I am also now adding on stool softener to my nightly medication regimen. My chemo nurse told me to take 2 Senecot S in the AM and OM, but that lead to 48 hours of loss of bowel control. Mortifying, thank goodness that happened over a weekend!
I have come to think of this whlel process as a war goin on inside my bodt. Like you, I have always tended towards constipation, but this is ridiculous!
I am also experiencing urinary incontinence, and have refused medication for it. My doc says it is not common and I feel as if I take one more pill that is NOT ABSOLUTELY necessary I will go over the edge.
It is good to know I am not the only one experiencing these side effects. I am new to the world of blogging and this is becoming a major sourse of snaity for me. Thanks everyone.