Onward!

I'm feeling much better today. My left breast is still quite swollen, but the redness has lessened, and my fever is gone. The new stronger antibiotics are definitely starting to work. Yay! (If Breasts weren't considered Naughty Bits, I would post a picture.)

Also, I got the results back from my Mugu (that name still cracks me up), and they were very good. Apparently, normal heart function is squeezing anywhere from 50% to 75% of your blood out of your heart with each heartbeat. My result was 72%, making me very high normal.

Other than that, I'm a little down. Getting so sick Monday meant yet another day off of work, and money issues are really starting to weigh me down. I was supposed to make enough at this job to get me through my first couple of quarters of grad school, but I've missed a lot of work. Grad school itself is expensive, but worse, it's almost impossible to work while I'm going, so I'm going to be living off of savings for a long time, and frankly, my savings aren't all that big. And our awesome insurance is running out in November. We'll have new insurance immediately, so I'm not worried that way, but the new insurance will have co-pays for everything, and since there already have been days when I've seen multiple doctors and had multiple drugs prescribed, those copays really add up.

We cut back our expenses as soon as I got lay off last year, and cut back again when I decided I was going to grad school. We're painting the house ourselves instead of having it done. I think we're being careful enough. But I worry.

Hmmpt. I need to start writing on this blog when I'm a little more cheerful! Okay, moving on: Next doctor visit - Thursday, with my Primary Care Doc. She's great, and I'm going to try to talk her into referals for everything under the sun: podiatrist for my sore feet, massage therapy for my potential lymphedema, naturopath and/or acupuncturist for chemo side effects. Cross your fingers.

Still to do: Call the Critical Trials facilitator and make a final decision about which trials I'm interested in. Call chemo coordinator, and see if my continued infection will affect my chemo start date (currently set for August 31st).

Onward!