Sassafrazzled

roll on Friday

First off, let me start with: CHRISTOPHER GETS HERE TOMORROW!!! Give me a big 'hell yeah'. The last time I saw him was in April and that's way too long ago. Here's hoping that's the end of our extended time apart from one another. Enough is enough, this girl is ready to go to London.

It's Thursday and Thursday means my body is aching for Friday to arrive. Tuesday was my last chemo, and I'm almost going to miss the nurses in the chemo ward. I still told them I never wanted to see their face again, unless it was on the street or in the grocery store, and they felt the same way. My magnesium levels were super-low though, so I ended up spending 5 hours in chemo while they hooked me up to a magenesium drip. I was there all day l-o-n-g.

Today was my third internal zzzap and I've been promoted to no general anaesthesia! The doc told me that because I've been so easy, and because I appear to have a 'calm disposition', that a strong sedative would be just fine. When she told me this, I automatically said 'no', because I really did not want to feel anything, or know what was going on, but she convinced me in the end. I'm glad too, because I was completley out of it and did not feel or know a thing, and I came too alot faster in recovery. Good times had by all. Except for the woman in the bed next to me who had to have a blood transfusion.

In world news, today the U.S. has approved the cervical cancer vaccine, which is so exciting. There are two types of the virus that causes 70% of cervical cancer cases (except for mine, because apparantly I am a freak of nature and like to be in the small slices of pie charts), and this vaccine will prevent these viruses, and hence will prevent 70% of cervical cancer. Hopefully Canada and the rest of the world will follow suit soon, which would prevent alot of girls in the future having to get poked with a radiation wand every Thursday. And that, my friends, is a good thing.

posted by Stephanie @ 6:00 p.m.