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@bailey.boo you look amazing!! You have a beautiful face and a super cute head!! It's so weird being bald isn't it?? I hope your taste comes back soon!

@grammie2 I'm so glad your platelet count went up!! Yay!! Hopefully your bowels will be good to you!

@halyy2024 I'm so very sorry to hear about the sickness and then your poor husband! Oh my goodness honey! You truly are Superwoman!

Just to let you all know, I also have melanoma IN my eye. Monday I will go under for a plaque placement behind and on top of my eyeball to deliver radiation over 4 days. I get to come home after but my eye will be sewn mostly shut and il wear a lead eye patch. I am so very scared and don't know how to control my anxiety. I've had a few surgeries but this one takes the cake on being scared. Please pray for minimal pain and anxiety 🙏 I should be happy that this will shrink and kill the tumor but oh boy.

My 3rd chemo is postponed until June 11 so I can heal a bit.

God bless you all and prayers coming for you guys!

Yes, my good eye is dry, bad one waters too much sometimes and is dry other times. Makes seeing kind of difficult 😕

Ughhh! That sounds horrible. I’m so sorry you’re going through everything you are at once right now. No more bad stuff! I’ll be thinking of you and praying enough already. Hopefully round 3 will go easy for you! 

Thanks for the baldy support 💕 My taste buds are still a little off but improving by the day. I definitely can’t handle anything with a lot of salt or too much tart lately. I lost about 10lbs or so but my scale needs a power cord, and I haven’t weighed myself this past week. I bet I’ve gained a couple back. 

@grammie2 thats awesome news! Wow number 3 done that’s amazing you’re almost there!

@bailey.boo glad you had an okay week and are eating well. Have your taste buds been affected by chemo? Mines changed almost immediately, things either taste bitter or like nothing at all. I’ve lost about 8 pounds already, but I also just had a baby before this so i don’t mind lol. Sorry you felt self conscious at the mall, I hate that feeling! If it’s any consolation you really do look super cute with a shaved head. Your features are so pretty you pull it off well! 🩷

My kids brought home a nasty flu from school, and we all got it. Sore throat, fevers, body aches. I had to postpone treatment a week so number 3 for me is Thursday when it should have been 2 days ago. I’m annoyed but whatever. It’s been such a rough few weeks, up all night with the kids managing their fevers and vomiting through the night while sick myself. To make matters worse my husband got into an accident on his dirt bike and broke his leg and had emergency surgery. So now he can barely walk, which means he can’t help with our 4 kids who are all little. I’m hating this season right now and hoping things get better from here!

oh, that all sounds very positive! I’m so glad everything is going as well as can be for you and hope it stays on the up, @grammie2 💕 It gives me hope with my upcoming round.

I’ve been feeling like myself this week, working and doing all the normal things, trying to get all of my protein and produce in to get ready for round 2 this coming Thursday.

My hair was coming out in handfuls and I looked like a patchy, scraggily mess with random strands hanging on. I had to return something at the mall, and I felt so self-conscious. So I bought clippers, went home, and shaved myself bald just now. I look like Dopey Dwarf in a baseball cap, but I HATE the beanies and scarves I have, and the free hospital wig is horrendous. I have no clue what I’ll do with myself yet, but I feel much better. I hope my eyebrows and eyelashes hold out for a while!

How is everyone? Been quite on here! I hope everyone is feeling good and things are going well!

Prayers worked! My platelets went from 98 to 233 in a week!!! All other bloodwork was good as well! So number 3 done! They started me on oral mag. so will see how I handle that. D could be an issue. But I usually start out with constipation the first 4 days, followed by 3 days of having to take immodium before eating. If it's a big issue those 3 days, I'll just skip those days.

@bailey.boo I am so glad you had a good time with your family!! I read on the eye thing that the watering may be coming from the eyes overcompensating for the dryness and become super watery. I'm trying to use eye lubricant to see if that helps. I have normally dry eyes anyway.

I have lots of fuzz left and one strip of hair about 1/2 inch wide and 4 inches long that is refusing to fall out LOL. It looks like a small mohawk left side on the top of my head LOL. I'm doing the wig thing for work, but generally just some kind of beanie the rest of the time. My brows and lashes are thinning too. Everything from the neck down is still hanging on for now. A little thinner maybe. Ugh.

If you are a praying person, please say a prayer for my bloodwork to be good for treatment tomorrow. Thanks!!

Hope everyone had a good (long) weekend. I didn't do anything exciting really, but enjoyed the extra day off.

I'm preparing for #3 Thursday. Trying to eat plenty of red meat and legumes to hopefully help build my hemoglobin, platelets and mag. Praying platelets are way up by Thursday!

How's everyone feeling? Anyone with watery eyes that just pour for no reason? I first thought allergies, but a friend who went through breast cancer treatment said that is a SE. Ugh.