A Special Mermatriarch New Year's Cocktail

The Recipe For Mermatriarch

3 parts Kindness 2 parts Sass 1 part Bravery Splash of Instinct Finish off with an olive

What's the Recipe for Your Personality?

Fried Brain

It's crazy. I totally forgot about MLA. The premier conference for us academics that happens right after Christmas, and I forgot about it. Maybe cancer's good for some things after all.

J/k

Chemo 3, Mermatriarch 0

I am still suffering the sinus infection that I got on 11/28. Combine that with a bad "trip" from this latest round of chemo, I am having a shitty, shitty day.

Merry Christmas

A blessed, happy day for all of you.

Update

My Mom came in on Monday, and she's been wonderful.

Wednesday was another round of chemo. What was terrible was the I.V., which just burned. I went through 3 liters of "buffer" solution, but when it ran out, I was crying, because the stuff just was like fire in my arm. Apparently I have a low tolerance for the meds, and I thought I would die. The nurse hooked me up with more buffer but I guess there's only so much they can give.

Anyway, four hours later, we left, and went to Target to pick up a new prescription. Every time I leave that doctor, it seems like I get some new drugs. And not good ones. :(

Chemo mostly makes me exhausted and nauseated. But I'm trying my best. It's early in my treatment, though; maybe later, I'll be less "cheerful and brave." I don't know how many rounds I'll have to get. It just depends on how my body responds.

Anyway, if I don't write any time soon, I hope everyone has a happy Christmas or other winter holiday. Bless you all.

Absurd

Choriocarcinoma. That's what it's called.

And I was upset earlier this afternoon when I tripped and broke a nail.

The Gift That Keeps on Giving

My latest blood tests were apparently bad... I have to see the gynocological oncologist (a specialist, in other words) on Monday. And I'm cramping really bad today.

I'm so sick of being sick.