Treatment 7

3.31.25 Walking into treatment 7 was mentally challenging for me. Having a cold during treatment 6 really made the week hard and walking into #7 knowing how crummy I felt the last round brought up a lot of anxiety. Before they even started the infusion my eyes filled up with tears. My birthday was also the day after the infusion and knowing that I would feel crummy on my birthday made me frustrated and bummed out. Miraculously after starting the infusion a patient I had met at the beginning of this journey happened to be finishing up her infusion and popped by. We caught up a little and cried a little and it was exactly what I needed. It instantly boosted my mood. This treatment they held the avastin again so my apt was not as long and I  went home with my 5FU pump. I felt pretty nauseous most of the treatment and made it through but when I got home I ended up throwing up. 

This round I made sure to stay up on drinking my protein powder and made sure to eat soup even when it was hard. I feel like the round was not nearly as bad as the round before. I felt a lot less "foggy" and seemed to bounce back a couple days sooner than the last. I did notice my hair is shedding a lot more, I am much more sensitive to the cold, and my forearms/ calfs feel like they are weaker. 

Thankfully I was able to celebrate my birthday with my girlfriends a couple days before the treatment. Then on my birthday my parents watched the kiddos while Mike and I went to the movie theater to see Snow White. I typically wouldn't leave the house day 2 of Chemo but I was determined to do something and it was the perfect way to get my mind off everything and  celebrate. 

Then on Friday 4.4.25 Mike and I drove out to Duarte to meet with the liver surgeon. I answered some pre surgery questions, did and EKG and then met with Dr. Melstrom. She went back over her surgery plan (ablade any tumors she can see/ evidence of where anything was and insert a HIA pump). She answered a bunch of our questions and said they wont be doing an 8th infusion before the surgery. Surgery is scheduled for April 29th.