Not So Great

The bad news....Today was a rough day. I had bad chills and body aches. I am also getting nauseated at night. Smooth couple of days are over I guess!
The good news...some new backgrounds are supposed to be delivered tomorrow.

CVP+R Chemo Update

I have been feeling great the past couple of days! It has been wonderful. Today, numbness and tingling set in the tips of my fingers and the tip of my tongue. It is a strange sensation but not painful, a little annoying. Other then that, I am not having any bad side effects the past few days.






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The Saddest Little Princess

 The Saddest Little Princess
In color and black and white. Personally I think these would make a great book cover for a story.

First Blood

I had my first blood draw from my power port in my chest today. It went very smoothly. They use a spray to freeze your skin so that it won't hurt so much when they pop into the port. Once they access it, it is a breeze. Hurts a bit when they remove the access but just for a second.


So don't be afraid of a port if you need one. It is better then blood draws in the arm, so much better then getting jabbed in the hand or arm for treatments and they can do it all in the one stick.


I have a new script for anti-nausea med. I am hoping I won't even need it. After the way the last one made me feel...I'd rather be queasy.


I was feeling real well today. I started doing Wii Fit to keep myself exercising during chemo. I recommend it to any chemo patient.








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Princess and the Swans

I have not felt up to another self portrait. I should have known I wouldn't keep up with that. I belong behind the camera, not in front of it.


Last week, the day before surgery, I received a new backdrop. I opened it today, grabbed my almost willing daughter and had her pose for me in one of our new vintage dresses.


I photographed her outside under a canopy with the backdrop. Then took the image into photoshop where I did cropping, editing and then painted her and the dress to flow with the artful feel of the backdrop.


Here are the results...




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Ahhhhhh

My boys put together a hammock/swing for me yesterday. So I can relax in the yard with my dogs. Here is a very unedited ipad2 picture I took today.
I am feeling much better today and was able to enjoy relaxing out in the cool breeze.



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Days 3 and 4 - Yuck

(In my best Peanut the puppet voice) "Day 3 and 4 suuuuuucked."


Today, day 5 much better. I stopped taking my anti-nausea meds yesterday. My head was in a cloud, my vision was blurry and I was having trouble holding my head up. I could not continue like that. I am risking the nausea, which was my great fear about chemo since I have a very sensitive stomach. So far today, I have been a little queasy but nothing I can't handle.


No self portraits the past couple of days. I will try to do one tomorrow. My steri strips look nasty now. Walking through Walmart I had a horrible fear that some well intentioned goober was going to talk up to me, telling my I have something stuck to my neck and rip it off. YOOOUUUCHHH!!! So I was hiding the strips/incisions the best I could.




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