Three months have passed since my last blog post, but this is not because I haven’t thought about doing any writing. I am simply tired. Energy management has been a big challenge for me. As soon as I started to feel better, I started doing more activities, staying up a bit later at night…you know…doing FUN things! Well, unfortunately, when I do some of these fun activities, it takes me a long time to recover. A case in point – on a Tuesday evening I went to a concert. And on Friday, I was still tired from the late night, three nights before. Another thing that I’ve discovered is that Saturdays are my Most Tired Day, as after the work week, all of my energy is completely drained and I need a full day to recover. In an attempt to better manage my energy, I am trying to limit evening activities to one evening only during the week, as well as go to bed by 9 pm every night! I also try to keep my schedule to one activity per day on each of Saturday and Sunday. Sometimes I am successful with my energy management, and sometimes I fail 🙂

The other challenge that I have been dealing with in the last three months is that I contract colds and coughs very easily, and they can very quickly become quite severe. Of course, this is all part of the the fatigue that I am dealing with. The more tired I am, the more susceptible I am to catching a virus. I now have basically an entire pharmacy in my bathroom!

But enough of the boring stuff…on a more exciting note, I have a few medical milestones coming up. Last week I had my very first post-treatment mammogram, and while I have read the radiologist’s report (it looks good!), I will meet with my oncologist on May 31st to formally review the results. But I am fully expecting to get a good report card…as many of you know, I like my A-pluses!

I am also at the point where I am counting down the weeks to the last of the Herceptin treatments at Princess Margaret. To refresh your memory, Herceptin is used to treat metastatic breast cancer that is also HER2-positive (my cancer proved to be estrogen, progesterone and HER2 positive). I still go to the Chemo Centre for these infusions every three weeks, but there is zero downtime afterwards. I go to the hospital in the morning, get the infusion, and then go to work from there. I will say that I am pretty much the only person in the Chemo Centre who wears a suit while being treated! All jokes aside, the good news is that there are only four more of these infusions. The last one is scheduled for August 1st, which is a mere 9 weeks and 3 days away! And in case you forgot about the Port-a-Cath (still not my friend!), once the last treatment is done, I will be able to have the surgery to get it removed. This is a surgery that I am actually looking forward to 🙂