Once a week after radiation I have to meet with my Radiation Oncologist (Dr. Pu) and go over my treatment plan and see how everything is going. Well, right before doing so, I check in with the nurse and she weighs me and asks a few questions. This time she was amazed at how quickly I was back after just having had radiation at the end of June for my left shoulder, and I explained that I may be back again for my right hip soon. Of course she made a note of that and started to weigh me, where she stopped for a moment and asked me why I was experiencing such rapid weight loss, and looking at the scale I realized that I was down another 3 lbs this past week, equalling 8 lbs in just a little over a week and a half. I've lost a total of 59 lbs since I was diagnosed, so it's just been recently that it's starting to get concerning. She then went on to tell me that I need to eat more and that I'm not getting enough protein in my diet, that if I kept losing weight, that I would start to lose muscle instead of fat and that was scary. I barely have energy and strength to get up out of a sitting position, so I can't lose any more muscle! She left the room at that point and returned with a huge bag of Ensure nutritional supplements and other stuff for me to drink, I hope it helps. After that, Dr. Pu came in to see how I was doing and said that he heard from the nurse about my hip and so he ordered me an x-ray immediately to see what was happening, and although I just had a bone scan just a couple weeks ago, things change that fast when it has to do with cancer growing or "flaring up".
When I came in today they already had the x-ray results and wanted me to undergo radiation in my hip as well, starting tomorrow. I'm thrilled. One reason is because they're doing the treatments back-to-back each day instead of waiting for my entire schedule to be done on 9/15 and starting on my hip for another two weeks. That would be awful because the entire time I'm in radiation I have to hold off on my chemotherapy, which scares the he'll out of me because of how fast it grows. The other reason I'm happy that we're starting tomorrow, is because the faster we start, the faster I'll be out of pain (or at least some of the pain) and that thrills me!
Oh, and Teresa my Weight Watcher Leader (but mostly my great friend), do you have any suggestions for me to stop losing weight or help me to incorporate more protein in my diet? Maybe you could speak w/John if he happens to come to one of your meetings soon. Anyway, any help would be appreciated, thank you Teresa <3
Peace to you all ~ Love, Genie
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Hi Genie, I'm glad they will start radiation tomorrow. When are your appointments? Maybe I can ask for a part of a day off. Also, do you have time this weekend to grab coffee or lunch and come see little Nathan? Love you!
ReplyDeleteMy Darling Genie, The blog has been rejecting my comments but I write them anyway believing that you know I read and reread your posts everyday.
ReplyDeleteGaining weight is a gift of mine. I will share my expertise with your beloved sweetie of 19 years.
Roberta ~ got your vm and will send you my schedule to see if there's a time that perhaps would work out for us. But besides that, yes PLEASE, I would love to meet little baby Nathan this weekend. I'm doing nothing (that I can recall). So please call me and we can get together. For me, the earlier the better cuz I take many naps throughout the day and it'll be hard to catch me in the afternoon. Love ya!
ReplyDeleteTeresa ~ I believe you :) apparently lots of people have trouble posting, I hear that a lot, no worries. I actually feel the love in my heart from you <3 thanks for giving the info to my honey, I appreciate it. Love you!
Hi Genie, I will call Friday night or Saturday morning. Would you like to go to church with me on Sunday and then see the baby? We'll figure something out. Teresa, I had the same problem, I went in and reregistered I think... it finally works now. But I couldn't post for a couple of days.
ReplyDeleteRoberta ~ it sounded as though when I said that to you, that John & I sat around on the weekends with nothing to do, when in fact it's only me that sits around. The only reason I'm clarifying this is because lately I've had many wonderful invitations for the two of us to get away and because he's always unavailable, we've had to decline. So with that being said, yes I am available and would really like to go with you to church, that would be fun. If she wants to, maybe Jordan can come as well. Take care <3
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