Today marks the end of my 2nd of 3 or 4 cycles of Chemo. Yesterday was my first full day out of the back brace and I’m feeling pretty good. I got up and got dressed in my Revere Tuxedo ready for treatment day. I’ve found it’s best to wear clothes that can give the Nurses access to any place they need to stick a needle without having to go to a room and strip down. Yeah I am talking about upper leg, seriously get your mind out of the gutter.

So it’s track pants and although I don’t like to admit it I am from Revere and if you are going with the track pants you got to go full Revere Tux. Bust out the chain, the old school three strip shinny track pants not those new tapered ones that look you might be wearing adult diapers. Really play into all the stereo types. I considered sunglasses indoors but everyone has there limit.

This morning we started bright and early at 8:30. Gave the blood for testing and waited. Had a chat with the nurse about side effects. The aforementioned cankle situation seemed to resolve itself but I am getting crazy dry patches of skin. I am moisturizing like crazy but I still look like a citizen of Kings Landing after a Daenerys flyby. Oh did I forget to say spoiler alert? Well if you are following the show at all and didn’t see some BBQ’ed people coming that’s on you. She’s got dragons she was going to burn some people.

Got to chat with the Oncology Doc and the Nurse about my numbers. Nurse say my immune system numbers are normal numbers for red and white cells or whatever strange math they do to figure it out. Not chemo/cancer normal but just normal. Which is good. I asked the Doc about the skin and he told me that it’s actually a good thing. It’s my body’s immune system fighting the side effects of the drugs and a indication that my body is keeping things in check. So we are going to try some different moisturizer to see if we can get that 20 something year old glow I had before starting the treatments.

Doc also said blood work shows some serious ass-kicking on this round. Some number he tracks as “one of the indicators” went from 678 down to 170 during this round. Doc says that is a pretty huge change for a single cycle. Again, not sure why this isn’t in a kill counter somewhere.

In other news I start working from home tomorrow. Kind of bittersweet, our sabbatical is over. Liz is starting back tomorrow as well. That being said I am looking forward to diving back in and catching up with my work peeps. Liz and I aren’t watch TV for 8 hours a day type of people. I need something more interactive to keep me interested and there is only so much adult coloring books you can do before you start to go crazy.

If anyone wants more detailed information or to donate to research for Multiple Myeloma here is a link to the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation. These are the people who are most likely to find a cure. Which means no more blueberry muffins on Tuesday, but also no more shots and drugs that make demon babies.. The muffins are good, but not that good