Thursday, September 26, 2013

Ups and downs

IMy last post I felt had to be upbeat, as I wanted th focus on the positive, even though I was feeling bleagh!
It had been a crazy busy term at work. With my room being moved, I felt I was going backwards more than forwards, with stuff having to be moved sooner than anticipated, and the old room being knocked down arghhh! Chaos reigned supreme!
I was moving 40 years of stuff, trolley by trolley, lifting more than I should, totally whacked! Then I had a literal run in with a student who ran into my cancer stricken arm, causing extreme pain! Many tears, more endone and panadol osteo than I had taken in ages.
So sore hips, arms, overwork, feeling unsupported, run down, end of term, I was a mess.
Thankfully the term ended, and my clever sisters booked a weekend on Bribie in Queensland! Just what I needed. Chilled, laughter, good food and drinks! Great memories!

I had been attempting the bikram 4x4 challenge and was doing well until my meltdown...so I let it go... But 1 day back from my weekend away and back at bikram. Felt awesome! And I even managed to briefly balance on both legs in standing bow. Whoot, as well as touching my head on the floor!
Feeling great only a few joint aches which have been massively improved with starting red krill with glucosamine!
On top of things, and tumour markers down to 23 all good! Brilliant, just had my denosumab shot, everything is going well. Life is good.

Saturday, September 14, 2013

Getting on with living

Well, the good news is for the past 4 months my tumour markers have been reducing. So they have gone from 120, to 80, to 40 , to 30, which they say is now a normal level. The oncologist says if there was a textbook response to treatment I am it. Still on xgeva injection every 4 week's, and the rads are finally doing their work and minimising the pain. The worst pain I get now is when I over do things! So heading towards remission I hope. Only having endone in the evening, and paradol osteo now and then.
Life is good..still feels surreal, how can I feel so good, and be so sick? A bit like the phoney war!