Today is my every 3 weeks Dr appointment with my Thoracic oncologist. I'm still fighting off this sore throat and still have not gotten my regular voice back. I sound terrible, like an elderly senior woman with a broken coarse, rough voice and sort of feel like one since I have such bad, painful back and hip pains. Seriously, I can't believe this is happening since I'm still so young and my mind still thinks and act like an active 35 year old.
However, in reality, since my cancer has metastasize to my lower and middle spinal back as well as my hips, lately, I can barely easily get up or walk around actively without pain or ever slow aching effort. It's terrible that my kids see me this way as I painfully juggle with every movement to get up and move around. When the pain is awful and unmanageably bad, I just take a Tylenol as I really dislike taking any other stronger pain medications like Vicodin. With all effort, I avoid taking anything stronger. Pain medications that are in the narcotic family just do not do well with me since it makes me feel loopy and causes constipation.
I hope my Dr will find better treatment options for me to be more pain free so that I can have a better quality of life. Hopefully, he will suggest a treatment plan that will help ease my bone and back pain. I need to be pain free and be more active as the kids are so excited to go on our family San Diego vacation soon in August.
Looking for new Tenants
Since we're still house hunting, we're also faced with the obligation to find new tenants to sign on a new lease of our rental home. It's a daunting task for us to worry about as we can't be faced with having to pay for two homes once we close escrow on a house. So our goal now is find new tenants on our existing home and we'll go from there. I've started to advertise in hopes of finding new tenants soon. Here are some pictures I took to showcase the rental home. View it at http://www.flickr.com//photos/31415274@N05/sets/72157626836739241/show/
Possibly Chemo tomorrow or Next Week
With every routine Dr visit, I also get my labs done to see if my body is OK with receiving another round of chemo. If everything goes well today, I may be getting my fifth chemo infusion tomorrow. If not, as usual, I have to come back next week to see if I am able to receive it. Receiving chemo is an arduous process, but it's part of the process to help my recovery and fight. So let's hope and pray for the very best.
With that, here's a prayer that my pastor wrote up for me this week: "Lord, I am feeling so poorly. You know what is attacking my body. You can see everything. I ask you in praying, right now, to fill me with your healing light. Banish the sickness from my body. Fill me with your Presence, draw me into your healing powers and help cure me." Amen.
However, in reality, since my cancer has metastasize to my lower and middle spinal back as well as my hips, lately, I can barely easily get up or walk around actively without pain or ever slow aching effort. It's terrible that my kids see me this way as I painfully juggle with every movement to get up and move around. When the pain is awful and unmanageably bad, I just take a Tylenol as I really dislike taking any other stronger pain medications like Vicodin. With all effort, I avoid taking anything stronger. Pain medications that are in the narcotic family just do not do well with me since it makes me feel loopy and causes constipation.
I hope my Dr will find better treatment options for me to be more pain free so that I can have a better quality of life. Hopefully, he will suggest a treatment plan that will help ease my bone and back pain. I need to be pain free and be more active as the kids are so excited to go on our family San Diego vacation soon in August.
Looking for new Tenants
Since we're still house hunting, we're also faced with the obligation to find new tenants to sign on a new lease of our rental home. It's a daunting task for us to worry about as we can't be faced with having to pay for two homes once we close escrow on a house. So our goal now is find new tenants on our existing home and we'll go from there. I've started to advertise in hopes of finding new tenants soon. Here are some pictures I took to showcase the rental home. View it at http://www.flickr.com//photos/31415274@N05/sets/72157626836739241/show/
Possibly Chemo tomorrow or Next Week
With every routine Dr visit, I also get my labs done to see if my body is OK with receiving another round of chemo. If everything goes well today, I may be getting my fifth chemo infusion tomorrow. If not, as usual, I have to come back next week to see if I am able to receive it. Receiving chemo is an arduous process, but it's part of the process to help my recovery and fight. So let's hope and pray for the very best.
With that, here's a prayer that my pastor wrote up for me this week: "Lord, I am feeling so poorly. You know what is attacking my body. You can see everything. I ask you in praying, right now, to fill me with your healing light. Banish the sickness from my body. Fill me with your Presence, draw me into your healing powers and help cure me." Amen.
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