Spidey sense of smell

Friday was my first round of chemotherapy. Since Friday I’ve eaten bagels with avocado, mashed potatoes, and popcorn happily. My belly has been soured by most foods that I like to eat. I feel sickened and get a bad taste in the back of my tongue when I think about bread dough, I ate quiche on Friday following treatment, and the crust was buttery, like a good quiche crust should be right, nope. So, every time I think of bread I think of the buttery crust and am completely sickened. I was also drinking a Puer tea and I think that the tea enhanced the buttery taste in the quiche, so I’m also skeptical of tea.

I asked my sweet man, Jason to bring me some mashed potatoes on Sunday night on his way home from visiting with his friends. It was later than I had thought, and If I would have known the lengths he went to bring me tatters I would not have even asked. The thunderstorm started about 9pm and because it was Sunday in the bible belt all the usual mashed potato joints; Popeye’s. KFC, and Church’s Chicken had already closed. He went to a local bar, which has really rich and peppery mashed potatoes. He brought them home to me with his conquering story about how he was able to find the last mashed potatoes in the city. Unfortunately, they were a bit too gourmet for my sickly belly, I would have been fine with a box of generic tater buds.

OH, and I have developed a Spidey sense of smell, which is strange for me. I grew up in an out doorsy way, we lived on an acreage, we had pets inside the house, my mom smoked in the car. My stinky punk friends and smelly feet roommates for the most part did not affect me. But this weekend, I smell everything. I think we have a gas leak that only I can smell outside my back door it’s an awful chemical smell like the smell of dope cooking on a spoon and plastic melting at the same time. Maybe we live by a meth lab I did not know about? This afternoon at work they had bbq catered for a meeting, I had to leave the building it was to smelly. And I wanted mashed potatoes.

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I'm going to miss this little guy.

This is a chemo week, on Friday I’ll be getting my third knock out round of Adriamycin and Cytoxan drugs. My treatments are every other Friday. One more round of the A&C combo and then I get to look forward to five rounds of Taxol. If the treatments follow the schedule I’ll be finished by my 37th birthday, the first week of July. My last round of chemo will be on the 4th of July. So at least I might be able to enjoy my ice cream cake before nausea takes over. Chemo is preventative, just like my preventative bilateral mastectomy. The chemo should lower my statistical predisposition to the cancer reemerge. Dr. Dureka, the first Oncologist that I saw at OU, said the statistical likelihood of cancer coming back is upwards to 60% likely without chemo, but with chemo and possibly radiation following the stats drop to 30%. It’s like a choose your own adventure book with every new Dr. visit. Maybe this next visit will send me to someplace tropical with warm sands and beautiful clear

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I could use a vacation from these treatments. I'm trying to keep the glass half full, but all these bitches (friends <3 I love) are taking vacations to the beach, and I can't help but feel dumpy and jealous. The travel bug has got a hold of me and I wish I was not plugged into this treatment plan for another three months. It feels like I'm wasting my life away with all the mundane trips to the Dr. to get poisoned and then recovering from the poisoning just to get poisoned again. Just four more treatments! We spent Saturday at Turner Falls, not quite the beach, but I got my nature fix. I was able to spend time away from home and had a nice adventure with my love. The trip was to see John Waters do a talk at the Ada film festival; patting myself on the back for seeing all his films. Traveling across the state through Oklahoma spring thunderstorms was an adventure in itself. The storm left the valley floor flooded at the falls, so we were not able to

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