Feeling weak after last week.

I'm currently in a hotel room (by myself for the first time ever.. thanks mommy for trusting me ;)) in Palo Alto for only 14 hours because the clinical trial needs post blood samples from treatment #4. I tried to work my way around having to come back here just for 10 minutes of blood draws but the clinical trial has strict rules.  I'm worn out from a week of treatment and classes, from driving here and knowing that I have to drive back to Cal Poly tomorrow. But hey, good news is I finished my last clinical trial treatment last Monday!! Hip hip Hooray! Now let's pray that my PET scan shows that the trial medicine worked and I can move on to the journey of my Bone Marrow Transplant.

Last Monday went smoothly and that's what matters. As I mentioned in my previous blog, my oncologist gives me Benadryl and steroids before the clinical trial drugs to stop any allergic reactions from happening like they did for treatment #2 because I did NOT want to ever feel like that again. So of course, the Benadryl put me right to sleep and I slept during the whole treatment!! All 5 hours! That was pretty awesome to fall asleep and be woken up by my nurse saying "Hi honey, you're all done for the day, you can go!"

After treatment, my mom and I met up with Julie Lin at the Stanford shopping mall. She's one of the only women that I can talk about makeup with and she knows all the brands I'm talking about it! Lol I love it. We shopped around and had a yummy dinner.

I had to spend another night in Palo Alto, and the following morning(Tuesday) I had some blood draws and then drove straight to San Luis Obispo to make my afternoon math class. My mom and the  Chalker family convinced me to get the Audible app for these long drives so I started Amy Poehler's book for the drive back to school! So far, I was feeling great and no fatigue from treatment.

The rest of the week was hard. I started to feel weak, as if I had just run a marathon. I was tired from just walking from my car to my apartment. During chemo I would feel this same way, and I hated every minute of it. Just like my mom, I'm an on-the-go type of person! I don't have time to feel weak and stay in bed. I had to make up a midterm that I missed from my treatment day, and my homework load felt like it was getting bigger by the minute... At one point, I called my mom in tears. I was overwhelmed.  I also didn't have much of an appetite this week. I mostly ate tangerines and quest bars.

But it's now 6 days since treatment #4 and I'm finally feeling better!!

Only two more weeks left in Winter Quarter which means only 2 weeks left in San Luis Obispo before I have to officially move back home :( It's sad to think about but I'm ready to beat this cancer again!!

I'm procrastinating an essay and presentation due in a few days to write this blog post about treatment #4... lol I guess that's the life of a college student going through cancer treatment!

Spending the day in Napa before treatment #4

Shopping and dinner with Julie in Palo Alto

Matching Mommy and daughter shoes :)