So again it's been awhile since my last post. It's hard to think of anything much to write about other than feeling like crap after chemo and then feeling less like crap as time goes on. I can't imagine anyone wants to read that over and over again, so I figure I'll wait until I have something of substance to write.
The past two weeks have been very up and down. I had my third chemo treatment on March 4, and the recovery this time was the easiest I've had! That may be due to the fact that my Vitamin D levels were tested and were VERY low, so I started taking both prescription and over the counter Vitamin D on the day of my chemo treatment. That weekend was the most "normal" weekend-after-chemo I've had so far, so even though I didn't feel great, I didn't feel like I was dying. My sister came to visit to help out that weekend, and Calla had a great time with her Aunt Virginia. My older nephew, who is a junior at Virginia Tech, stopped by on his way home for Spring Break on Saturday, so it was nice to see him as well.
The only time I really felt bad during this post-chemo was on Tuesday morning. I don't know if it's just because I went into work, which completely exhausted me, but I was in rough shape. I got through the morning and went home early, and thankfully felt fine the next day.
Yesterday I had another bad day, although it certainly wasn't as bad as a post-chemo day, but I was just exhausted all day for some reason. Calla had a birthday party in the morning at the local Children's Museum, so maybe that was what exhausted me. I kept waiting for the other parents to ask me about the chemo, because I'm sure they all know at this point. The kids have all asked me to see my bald head, and I'm guessing the kids have said to their parents "Calla's mommy doesn't have any hair!" No one said a word, though. I'm guessing if I was in their shoes I wouldn't have said anything, either. I'm not sure if what I would prefer, to be honest.
The really low this week, though, was that Aris lost his job. It was a temp job that was originally only supposed to last 8 weeks or so, and it lasted almost a year, so in some ways we should be grateful. However, the way the whole thing happened is really pretty shitty. Basically, at the end of the 2014 they told him that they wanted him to go full time and were basically creating a position for him. The entire time he's worked there, they have been been happy with his performance -- happy enough to keep him around for 9 months past when his original temp position was supposed to end. This week they basically told him that there were concerns with his performance that no one bothered to mention to him before and they were letting him go.
So here's the thing: the only that could have possibly changed in his job performance since the end of 2014 and now is that his wife got cancer. As a result, he's missed a bunch of days of work so that he could be with me, and he's been late a few times (which he normally never is) because he had to take Calla to pre-school or I was just feeling awful and made both of us late. So, basically, they are ASSHOLES. And here's the irony, in case you didn't know. Aris was working at Augusta Health, a fucking HOSPITAL.
I mean, seriously, who does that? Tell someone that they're creating a position for them, then their wife gets cancer so they let them go? And they work in the medical field. But since he was still a temp, there's absolutely nothing we can do. They can just tell the temp company that his job is done, and that's it.
So thank goodness for my sister and her fundraising. If it weren't for that, I don't know what we'd do. Luckily, we've been setting up payment plans for the larger medical bills that are coming in, and I have a small declining balance card as part of my crappy insurance plan that we're using for the smaller bills coming in. So far we have quite a stack of medical bills piled up, but since we've now met my deductible, hopefully they will slow down and eventually come to a stop.
So that's the news for now. Please send positive thoughts that Aris finds a good new job soon. I have my last Adriamycin and Cytoxan treatment this Wednesday. After that, I will have four Taxol treatments, which I'm hoping will be easier on my body.
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