Ride on the Hairplane

Week 1 of chemo…done.  My chemo drugs are given on Mondays, with the study drug given on Mondays and Thursdays. This means side effects are most likely going to hit within a day or two of Monday’s chemo.

This week I felt really good, except from about Wednesday morning to Thursday afternoon. It wasn’t that I was feeling sick (hooray for anti-nausea meds!), but that I felt a little fuzzy around the edges and was moving in slow motion. The nurses yesterday all said the same thing: “Chemo brain!”.  I told the girls about chemo brain and that I may have a few days after chemo where I just was moving a little slowly, and that they might need to be patient with me. Alice helpfully offered to punch me in the arm to snap me out of it if she thought I was getting too spacy.

Another side effect looming, is losing my hair. Its unclear if this is going to happen yet as these drugs do effect everyone differently, but I decided to prepare myself for the worst-case scenario. Paid a visit to JD at Hairplane this week and he worked his rock-star magic. Most of my hair was left on his salon floor, so if it does fall out, there is less of it to lose.