Fast facts (if you don’t have time to read the full post): Happy three week anniversary to discovering the cancer in my body! I know my schedule for my first five rounds of chemo and that is a nice relief. I meet with a nurse or someone very important to learn all about my treatment tomorrow at 4 pm. If you have a question you think I should get answered, please leave them in the comments section! I am curious to see what you all want to know. These will be used to inform the future FAQ page. T-minus three days until my first round of chemo. Rip.

TO THE LONG VERSION!

The joy of my day was seeing my first five rounds of chemo loaded into MyChart. (It is the small things in life, my friends. I am very easy to impress.) I immediately logged all of my upcoming appointments into my Google calendar. Gosh I love a well organized, color coded calendar. Sometimes I just open my calendar to look at my handy work. Organization is a skill I have learned that not everyone has the talent for and I take it very seriously. There have been times in my life where there has been very little on my calendar and let me tell you, I go out of my way to fill it up. My calendar needs to look like a rainbow vomited everywhere. Being busy is one of my favorite activities until it burns me out and I have no time to watch “The Office” for the hundredth time. I know I will have a lot of free time soon, though. Cannot wait to binge season two of “Bridgerton” during chemo.

In a way, chemo feels like a gift of time. It is helping fight the cancer in my body to give me more time on this planet. It is also giving me time to watch a shit ton of Netflix so I won’t be the odd one out in convos about what people are watching these days. You know me, I don’t sit very well and now I am forced to sit for hours at a time while poisons enter my body and kill my cells. Segue into my excellent chemo schedule! Someone in the universe heard my pleas for my chemo sessions to be on Thursday’s. I didn’t even get the opportunity to ask or request they be on a Thursday and THEY ARE ON THURSDAY’S! Yay me! The universe handed me a small win. Note: For brevity, I am only including the date, time of chemo, and duration of the appointment since every time I go in I will have to go like two hours early for blood work and a meeting with my oncologist.

Thursday, March 17 – Round #1: 9:15 am chemo that will last 3.5 hours

Thursday, March 31 – Round #2: 3:30 pm chemo that will last 2.5 hours

Thursday, April 14 – Round #3: 10 am chemo that will last 2.5 hours

Thursday, April 28 – Round #4: 9 am chemo that will last 2.5 hours

Thursday, May 12 – Round #5: 11 am chemo that will last 3.75 hours

I am not sure if round five is the start of my weekly appointments or not because I was told I will have sixteen rounds in total. They only have me booked out for the first five rounds in MyChart for now. Let’s hope I can keep Thursday’s because it is just what I was hoping for!

Lol. I hope for these things now.

If you’re interested in sitting in at a chemo appointment, let me know! I look forward to showing you around. I heard there are snacks there. We need to find out what kind of snacks. Good snacks, I hope.

Today’s song lyric of the day is brought to you by 4 Non Blondes. Sometimes I literally wake up and this song is in my brain, which was the case this morning.

“And so I wake in the morning and I step outside
And I take a deep breath and I get real high
And I scream from the top of my lungs
“What’s going on?”

– What’s Up?, 4 Non Blondes