Jessica's Journey

 CHEMOTHERAPY WEEK 8 Well today was treatment number eight for me…Eight of twelve!  I’ll then be moving on to my second phase of chemotherapy.  It will last an additional eight weeks. I was nervous, as usual, today. However, my blood counts were looking really good!   I’ve really been eating and drinking lots of protein as well as eating lots of blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries. Maybe that helped. I was successfully able to receive treatment today.  I love all my nurses at Brown Cancer Center.  They are so supportive and they sit back and wait patiently along with me for my lab work to return.  They are all cheering when it’s good enough to receive treatment.  We’re a team. So now is the fun part, the side effects.  I’ll have many days of fatigue and muscle aches ahead of me.  By Wednesday I’m usually feeling much better…just to turn around on Thursday to start over again. Oh well.  It’s all part of the battle. I never get...

  CHEMOTHERAPY WEEK 7     Finally!  It's been a long couple of weeks waiting for this treatment.  I had to miss two Thursdays of my chemo treatment due to my white blood cell count being too low.  They told me I had to just allow my body to build them up.  I tried to get as much rest as possible and eat lots of protein and berries.  I went in there yesterday with my fingers crossed that I would receive good lab results.  With lots of prayer, I did!  I was able to receive my treatment yesterday!  However, my oncologist made a change with my chemo medications; he withheld one of them and will likely withhold it for the remaining five treatments.  Does this scare me?  Yes!  My mind races and wonders if one chemo drug will be enough to fight this aggressive monster inside me.  The thing that keeps me uplifted is knowing that after these last five treatments, I'll be beginning a new set of chemo medications that are m...