February 02, 2010

I feel better today. I was feeling good about life because I stopped taking my anti-nausea medication last Monday. I thought, 'cool', only needed my meds for 6 days. I felt great Tuesday through Saturday. On Saturday I got a great massage. Nahele is my new massage therapist and she did what is called a Lympic Massage. This means she only massaged my Lymph system. It was a new kind of massage that has a very light touch. After Nahele was finished I felt great and we talked about this type of massage helping to clean my system. It must have helped because Sunday I felt nauseous most of the day. It wasn't bad enought to take medication but I laid in a chair with a blanket for several hours just reading a book and napping. I am guessing the massage worked out some more chemo from my system and got things moving again. That is a good thing. I did drink quite a bit of water on Saturday to help flush my system so that probably helped get rid of more poison.
I am going back this Saturday for another massage. This time I will just do a relaxation massage.

I also gave some blood today for more blood tests. I need my white blood cell count taken to make sure I have enough white blood cells to do another chemo treatment in a few weeks. I was supposed to do it last week but there were a few hang-ups. Yesterday there was heavy fog so the clinic won't take blood since there is no way to get it to Ketchikan and then on to Seattle.
I will let you know the results as soon as I know them.

We are planning a vacation to Palm Desert, Ca. and Arizona. I am looking forward to getting some Vitamin D other than in vitamin form.