Chemo Round 2 Complete. I'm OK. Scooter Stella, not so much.

I had my second chemo round this last week, lost more hair, and feel a little more wrung out than last round. Just waiting for the ugh, which will commence tomorrow, if we're on schedule. Got through it in two days last time. Hoping for as fast a recovery this time too.

But that's nothing compared to what poor Stella is going through. Friday morning at approximately 1:45 AM, while parked in a 5-spot scooter parking pad, she and a motorcycle parked a space away were mowed down by a (presumably) drunk, hit-and-run driver. The owner of the motorcycle heard the crash and came outside in time to see a silver sedan driving away, but wasn't able to get the license number. He took some photos before picking up both our bikes and leaving a note on mine. She only had 144 miles on her. Undrivable, and probably totaled because of all the body damage. I was able to get her towed to the shop right away, and already have an insurance claim in the works. I should know her prognosis by Wednesday. Fortunately, I have pretty good coverage. This bites, but at least I wasn't on her at the time.

In better news, I'm moving ahead on organizing my linocut print / shrinkydinks art exhibit at the cafe across the alley from my apartment, Cafe Sophie. If all goes as planned, it should start around October 1 and my work should be up for about a month. There will be a little opening evening reception that I hope as many of you as possible will be able to attend.

Checkup with Dr. Liu

Just got home from seeing Dr. Liu. My lymph node has shrunk from the first chemo, and the blood tests show that my body tolerated that first round pretty well.

Dr. Gillis does not think it's a good idea for me to have more radiation in that area at this time. She zapped a wide margin around the node last time and doesn't want to subject the remaining healthy cells in that area to more radiation until a lot more time has elapsed.

So this chemo is really my only treatment option at this point. I need all your positive thoughts.

One chemo round down, ughs have been survived

This is my lino portrait of my great-nephew.

I got through last week's infusions fine. The ughs hit on Monday. I felt really horrible that day and mostly horrible on Tuesday. But I felt pretty well on Wednesday and was able to go to class and print. So grateful to have the ughs go away so quickly.

Only two more print classes and then I'm going to take a bit of a break, so I won't have to pay for classes and miss them because I'm ughin during the last of my chemo rounds. I have a bed cover to make using a serger that I have no experience with, as well as some shrinkydinks projects to finish. I probably have a bunch of radiation treatments in my near future too.