The Stillroom

My niece made this beautiful needlepoint for me. She knows me well. Kitties and flowers☺️

Today I have to see a nurse at the oncology office because I have these lumps that appeared above my port. I don’t know what they are but blood clots are what comes to mind. They flushed the port last week and drew blood for blood work which turned out to be good. But these lumps have appeared over the past days that have me concerned. I’ll see the nurse this afternoon so I’ll report back as soon as I know what these are. Trying to not be concerned until I have to be. One more day, one more hurdle to jump over. I’m enjoying good days in the meantime. If I would have had My scheduled treatment last week, I would still be in bed weak and tired. I just could not do it. Next Monday I’ll start again. I have to mentally prepare for that. Ugh!

Update…

So it turns out the lumps that appeared above the port is scar tissue. Three nurses looked and all agree that is what these are. My main concern was that whatever these were would not interfere with my upcoming five hour treatment this coming Monday.

My newest symptom is swollen ankles. I thought maybe because of the smoky Gouda Snyder potato chips I was eating with wreckless abandon. I went from basically a no salt diet (because I don’t really like salt) to losing my mind over these chips. So, I’m basically back to no salt or as little salt as possible and lots of water drinking to see if this will help.

I suppose it has something to do with getting older too? 🫣