I've put it off long enough

So December was a questionable month for me. It was promising in the beginning but then I had a side effect from the Tarceva, a mouth sore. Normally they come and stay for 10 days and don't interfere with life as I know it--just an irritation. This one kept getting worse and worse so finally I stopped taking the Tarceva in the middle of the month hoping it would heal. It did but for 2 weeks I was unable to eat anything much. Finally a week after January started it was healed.

During December just a few days before I quit the Tarceva I came down with the cold that's been going around. It was more annoying than anything. By the time January started the cold was well on it's way out.

I had an Oncologist appointment at the end of December and it was not one of those uplifting events that I've grown to expect. It took an hour to drive to his office and I sat in the waiting room and examining room for 2 hours. Fortunately my sons gave me an iPod for my birthday and I spent a lot of the time trying to amuse myself with my new toy. What I didn't do was write down a list of all the things I needed to talk to him about. We did discuss my latest blood test. Some of the numbers that have been stable for a long time are up and that's probably not a good thing.

I'll be getting blood work done every month to see if the numbers become stable again. Now that my cold is gone and my side effect is healed it may make a difference. I'll still be seeing my Oncologist in 2 months from my last visit and he'll have 2 blood tests to compare by then. Keep your fingers crossed.