Half Way Done

As of Wednesday, February 9, 2011 at approximately 11:30am half of my chemotherapy treatments are complete!!
It actually feels like it's going very fast when I think of it in terms of it being half over.
I've started to notice some of the side affects.
My hair, which I normally keep shaved anyway, is not growing nearly as much as it should be. In fact, a weeks worth of growth now is what would normally be what grows over night.

I haven't had to shave my face in 2 weeks, and it still looks like I'm cleanly shaved.
I've lost a lot of body hair and the tips of my fingers are all numb.

All of these things are side affects that with time, once I've completed all six of my treatments, should gradually disappear. My hair will grow back (I wish ALL my hair would grow back, it'd be nice to be rid of this male pattern baldness!) and the feeling in the tips of my fingers should return within 6 - 12 months (I just have to be careful when I'm cutting vegetables in the mean while).

I have a CAT scan coming up in a week. It's been ordered to see if the the chemotherapy is working, to see if there's been any changes to my lymph nodes since the first scan I had before I started the chemo.
I'm looking forward to the results of that most, as I can't really tell on my own if the lymph nodes have changed a whole lot as they were really small to begin with.

I still haven't adjusted to being home all the time, and by that I mean, not going to work.  It's surprising how much my work has become a part of who I am. I miss my patients, and my co-workers. I get tiny glimpses of it when I'm doing my chemo, because I'm "in" that environment again, but it's different. Mostly because I'm the patient, the one who needs to be taken care of.
I have to keep reminding myself not to touch the IV pump when it starts beeping most times!