IthacaMatt
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Hello, folks. Quick update, which I take to be very good news.
I have had night sweats every night for the last 6 months, since the cancer came back. It was so bad that I'd have to flip the pillow 2 or 3 times a night, or swap out a new one, to find a dry spot to go back to sleep. When it was really bad, I would even leave the top end of the bed damp by morning. This was despite sleeping on top of the covers all winter with just a top sheet and a partially open window every night to try to keep the room cooler for me.
It's now 3 nights in a row with a dry pillow come morning! As they say, "Three makes a trend". I take this to mean that the first round of chemo was effective, not only as evidenced by all the scabs indicating dead AK growths, but also by the fact that my body is not burning like a furnace to fight all the cancer.
I start my next 2 week round of chemo on Monday. After having 12 malignant tumors in the previous 5 months, I don't have any new ones in March. I think this next 2 weeks might be enough, knock on wood, for the foreseeable future.
And "the foreseeable future" is all that any of us have, anyway. LOL.
This is the most optimistic I have felt in a long time. Thank you all for your kind support!
I have had night sweats every night for the last 6 months, since the cancer came back. It was so bad that I'd have to flip the pillow 2 or 3 times a night, or swap out a new one, to find a dry spot to go back to sleep. When it was really bad, I would even leave the top end of the bed damp by morning. This was despite sleeping on top of the covers all winter with just a top sheet and a partially open window every night to try to keep the room cooler for me.
It's now 3 nights in a row with a dry pillow come morning! As they say, "Three makes a trend". I take this to mean that the first round of chemo was effective, not only as evidenced by all the scabs indicating dead AK growths, but also by the fact that my body is not burning like a furnace to fight all the cancer.
I start my next 2 week round of chemo on Monday. After having 12 malignant tumors in the previous 5 months, I don't have any new ones in March. I think this next 2 weeks might be enough, knock on wood, for the foreseeable future.
And "the foreseeable future" is all that any of us have, anyway. LOL.
This is the most optimistic I have felt in a long time. Thank you all for your kind support!
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