Post-Thanksgiving

My feet and my calves are still swollen all the time. By the end of the day, the pain can often be debilitating. *hobble* *hobble* I can only wear my Crocs (sometimes) or my Ugg boots or my house slippers of late. We see my doctor before more CAKE on Friday and this swelling will take top billing on the list of things to discuss with her.

Bless my Honey - last night he helped me soak my feet and legs in a deep tub of Epsom salt and warm water for 20 minutes, hoping the salt content would draw the water out of there. Then afterwards, he gave me a gentle foot and leg massage to help relieve the pain (it basically feels, though does not look, like a bruise whenever that area is touched. The Epsom salt did very little as far as we could tell but the massage was delightful.

I have to take a particular medication about 20 minutes before I eat a meal (or just about anything but a protien shake) or else everything comes back up and that's no fun at all. Sometimes I forget to take it (like this morning) until it's too late. I hate this part.

It bugs me that both of the aforementioned symptoms have not improved the further away from my last treatment that I get. I was under the assumption that this stuff would all go back to normal but I guess it's just proof that the chemo is all still in me, doin' it's job so all I should do is shut my trap and let it do what it needs to do. ??? Again, all will be reviewed with Doc Kane on Friday. Pete is taking me this time.

As for Thanksgiving...well it was wonderful! We drove over to my Dad and Carol's for the day, did all that last minute cooking and such, filled up out plates and then our bellies! I haven't been *stuffed* like that in many months! It felt great! And to top it all off, I got to enjoy my favorite Peanut Butter Cream pie from Marie Callendar's that has the same thickness of sweet merainge as the thickness of the actual Peanut Butter pie filling! Mmmm...there's just a bit more in the fridge. I think I'll go help myself now! Yum!

Now you tell me...how was your Thanksgiving? Where'd you go? What'd you do? Do you have any traditions at Thanksgiving? We have one that I think you'll really like (if you haven't heard of or participated in it already!) but I'm not sharing till you do! COME ON LURKERS!!! PLEASE LEAVE ME A COMMENT!!! When I see zero or just one comment on a post in a week's time, I assume nobody's reading this anymore but my Dad, Carol and Steve and Jane, all of whom I can keep in touch in a different manner! If you don't comment more often, then I won't post as often. Make sense? (That's why I added the questions for you part of almost every post - so I can get you to open up a bit and share on this blog, too! ) Here's your chance!