Carol Sue I'm glad the pharmacist was helpful and you ordered the chromium picolinate. It seems strange your DH not wanting potatoes.

I have been sleeping most of the day. I hope it is because this is day 3 of this last round of chemo. I don't know how I could sleep all night and day and then sleep tonight. Has to be just the chemo meds. Here's hoping for a better day tomorrow.

Trish, your body needed extra rest. I have done that a few times. Hope this last round is not too hard on you.

My roast turned out good but not as good as last time because I can't use salt. But it shredded up great. I also didn't have an onion. I usually slice an onion for on the bottom of the pot. I probably ate too much but protein is good.

I slept for 7 hours. Up for the bathroom once. I hope this continues. I might not sleep well Tuesday night because Wednesday at 2pm is
my Cat Scan. I'm not 100% sure where to go but I think I might know. I want to go early in case I'm wrong. They don't have parking. You have to park and walk. This is a very old hospital in a small town. As home nearby went up for sale they bought them up to use the land for parking. And a lot of it has to be used for employee parking. DH is not going to want to go too early so I will tell him its at 1:30 so we get there early. I would rather be early than late. I also didn't tell him I have to take steroids again. The less he knows the easier it is for me.

I just realized I haven't checked in today. I was tired all day. I hope I will start feeling better tomorrow. I hope y'all had a good day.

Hope you start to feel better, Trish!

Tam Tam, It sounds like you had a nice meat with friends and both of you stayed on plan. Good for you. Once you form this a it it becomes your lifestyle.

I can only imagine the temps you and Trish have down south. Here in PA we suffer if it hits 90.

I got sleep last night but it was broken. Hours with awake time in between. All my vitals are good this morning. I have been drinking more water than I'm supposed to but I feel better when I'm hydrated. I'm still eating with little to no salt. I sprinkle a few grains of salt on my eggs but not on anything else. I'm using the butter flavored spray on my vegetables unless DH is eating them too in which case I use butter. But it is salted butter so I go easy. So far no swelling or weight gain.

Tam Tam Y'all did good with your visit with friends. You both followed your own plan and it doesn't hurt to have the desserts as part of your plan that day. I learned years ago that it is good to plan for it so there is guilt that some times trigers cravings later. I know that had to be miserable at church with this heat and no AC. Hope they will have it fixed by next week.

Carol Sue I too feel better when I stay hydrated but I think one of the chemo meds makes my mouth dry even though I try to drink 8 glasses of water a day. Sometimes it can make me constipated or have diarrhea and this time I was constipated. That didn't help me feel good either. I'm out of fruit too and forgot to have DH get me some when we went by the store after my infusion. Hopefully I won't be taking that medicine any more.
I am praying your Cat scan goes well tomorrow. My vitals are back in normal range so I guess the affects of the steroids are over. This is Day 5 of this 21 day round.

I got a call from oncology yesterday and this is going to be a busy month. This Friday I have lab. On the 23rd I see the surgeon, on the 24th I have lab again and then CT scan. I go see my regular oncologist on 31st and find out what they have decided about my maintenance plan. Then I may have to go back on September 1st for 1st maintenance infusion.

I still haven't got my DL renewed if I can. No one talks on the phone any more and I can't get an appointment on line until sometime in September. They do hold some same day appointments you can take a chance of getting so DH will go by there today and see if they will give me an appointment for this Friday after my lab work is done. Then DH will go to Sam's and the local store by Sam's and he will get Chinese sweet 'n sour chicken for dinner. I'm okay with that because he thought about McD's which I can't stand any more. I may have to switch to McD's chicken or fish sandwiches when he wants a CB.

I'm back to exercising today as I actually feel better today. I definitely want to be using walker when I go for DL renewal and when I go see both my oncologist and gyn oncology surgeon. Hopefully the exercises will help with that.

Carol Sue I pray you can enjoy your day and have a good nights sleep without worrying about tomorrow although I have to say I understand exactly how you feel. My CT scans I have to do will show if the treatments or working or not. It is just a testing of my faith so I will leave it in God's hands remembering it is His plan.

Have a nice day everyone.

Trish, if you use the wheelchair when you go for your DL they may question your ability to drive. Is that a possibility? I would avoid that scenerio. You are lucky your BS,went down in 5 days. DH still doesn't know I'm taking them for tomorrow. If he finds out so be it. This is to extend my life. I just hope I don't have lasting effects.

My friend who had colon cancer told me her treatments weakened the muscles in her rectum and now she has chronic diarrhea. I feel very bad for her. She is afraid to leave the house. I don't know if it will improve in time but its been over a year.

Carol Sue I'm sorry to hear about your friend. I hope things will get better for her. I read years ago that you can exercise the rectum by squeezing and release kind of like Kegal exercises. I guess it helps some but as we get older they do weaken. I figure exercising them can't hurt and just might help some.

You are right about using the wheelchair to go get DL renewed. DH went to the DMV and got me an appointment to renew my DL but the appointment is October 10th at 3 pm. We decided that might be a blessing because maybe I will be doing so much better by then.

My hair seems to be growing back. I think the color of my hair is going to be salt and pepper. It is just fuzzy like right now. DH offered to shave his head so we would match if I wanted but I just laughed as he is balding naturally right now any way. LOL

My day has been pretty good today. DH got us a roasted chicken instead of Chinese. I was glad because I had suggested it to him the other day that it would be different than the same old thing all the time. I just had chicken and salad and a few cookies we have gotten hooked on.

Trish, a couple people I knew lost their hair during chemo and it grew back curly, but once it grew out it didn't stay curly. And one grew back completely gray. Will you get your hair colored again once it grows back? And perms? Maybe its too soon to plan that.

I love to get rotisserie chicken but DH just tolerates it. He doesn't like take out much. He likes to sit in a restaurant and be served.

When my friend consulted her doctor about her anxiety and diarrhea he gave her Zoloft for anxiety but nothing for the diarrhea. Actually, one of the side effects of Zoloft is diarrhea. Her doctor missed the point altogether.

My Chromium Picolinate came today. I checked online and you should not take it with Prednisone so I will wait until Friday to start it. I also have to hold my Metformin until Friday. There's many important things I would not know if I didn't google.

I'm nervous about tomorrow. I hope I can sleep tonight.

So far I have taken 2 of the 3 pills I have to take. Blood sugar is in the high 200s so far. I plan on eating zero carbs until I see improvement. So far there's no other symptoms. Now that I've come back to normal after 10 days I'm not as worried about it but I know any time spent with elevated blood sugar causes damage.

Carol Sue I hope the steroids you have to take today doesn't keep your bp up very long since it is just for the Cat Scan today. My bp was kind of low like before I knew I had the cancer. I guess I need to eat a little more sodium than I am, but having read that the infusion medicine can raise bp, I feel I have to be careful about eating too much. Praying all goes well with your scan today.

Not much happening today. I am feeling much better today. We will eat the other half of the roasted chicken we had yesterday. I have fruit again and that will keep me regular. I had DH get me some romaine lettuce for my salads and it didn't give me any stomach problems like the iceberg lettuce did.

Have a nice day everyone.

Trish, it is blood sugar that is raised by the steroid. So far blood pressure is ok.

DH doesnt like romaine because of the hard stem that goes up the middle. I like it because I've heard it has more nutrition than iceberg, but I've often heard of of it being recalled because of bacteria. So I don't buy it often. When I make salads at home I can cut the hard stem off for DH.

I cannot eat within 3 hours of my cat scan. I had scrambled eggs with no toast early this morning. I could have fasted straight thru but didn't want to take the steroid on an empty stomach. I hope I don't forget and eat something. I am allowed fluids. DH will eat before we go. He cannot go long without food.

I only got 5 hours sleep but I'll be ok. I'm surprised I got that much. I'm already thinking about dinner because DH will be asking. I think I would like to have a big meal salad from somewhere. A steak or grilled chicken salad. I'm not sure how I will be feeling afterwards and I know I won't want to cook.

When I get home I will be drinking LOTS of water to flush out the contrast dye. I will not risk a repeat of the kidney issue I had in the hospital. I still think they were wrong to do that.

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The test went well. The woman who prepped me did a very good job explaining it all to me. I won't know for a while if the information they get from this will be good or bad. I was very wobbly afterward and still am. I was falling asleep in the car on the way home and will probably fall asleep now.

Carol Sue I'm glad the scan is done and now I pray for a good report from it. Hope you can rest well now.

The Benedryl is wearing off. I did sleep almost 3 hours in my recliner. It wasn't deep sleep but I feel better. I'm no longer wobbly. This time I drank a lot of water to get the dye out of my system. Problem is, in the hospital they could do bloodwork and see that kidney function was an issue. I hope its ok.

I had skipped Metformin yesterday because it can't be taken with the dye but today they told me that things have changed and I don't have to stop it. I took one as soon as I got home. That should help my sky high blood sugar come down faster. This is only day 1. At least this time I know in advance what to expect.

On the way home we stopped at Rodneys to eat so we wouldn't have to find something for dinner. I ordered wings and brought some home. I'm pulling the meat off them for the dog.

So that's all my news. Hope everyone is doing well.

Sleep was a little better last night. I remember looking at the clock at 11:15 and next thing it was 4:30. Not deep sleep but not lying there awake.

Yesterday blood sugar was above 300. Yikes! Today it is 170. So if it stays and continues down it should be way better than last time. Other vitals are good except weight. I did not take the fluid pill yesterday because of the scan. I drank tons of water to flush the dye out and I'm pretty sure my wings had a lot of sodium. I'm supposed to call the doctor if I gain 3 lbs but I'm going to hold off to see if I can get it back down. I'm staying very low carb. And under 1000 calories. I'm back to my normal water consumption and trying not to sit around too much.

Last night I had a dream that I had tons of laundry to do but I couldn't find the washing machine. I checked where it was supposed to be but it wasn't there so I started checking all over the house. Why would I dream that??

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Blood sugar is now down to 148. I am thrilled!! Thank God for Metformin.