Round 3!

Back in the Hospital this week aka the "hotel"! My Doctor thought i was responding well so we scheduled my Chemo a couple days early. I was admitted yesterday, I'll be here until saturday morning! Everything is all good!!

I ordered a couple wigs! Only one came in! it looks awesome.
Check it out! Check it out! This was on Sunday at my cousins 2yo bday party. fiesta, fiesta!

Also the past week, I took my babe to the vet, and to the beach.

 

She dug her own hole, next to the bigger hole.

HOW PERFECT IS OLIVE!!! i Can't wait to come home to her :)
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kayyyyy everything is super great i'll keep you all posted.
p.s the margherita pizza at cottage is BOMB!

Becoming More Active

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Round 2 in the hospital was definitely more difficult!! But my recovery rate was also as impressive. Post hospital (last sunday) until tuesday morning = "poopy feeling". Come the afternoon and a Positive Energy Tea I feel "OK" again. PS. feeling good is amazing! Take even an hour of feeling good over anything. Cancer surprises you and you can be feeling awesome one minute and then the next here's the drastic headache.

I've been out and about a lot more, visting friends and family. This has so much to do in part of my girl, OLIVE!

Being active through Olive walks at shoreline with running around ( i run, she chases me) It feels so AMAZING being able to run and well RUN!! The other day I was playing with olive and just cranked out 10 push-ups, like a boss! We also walk to my Auntie Lidia's house which is less than half a mile and Olive loves playing with Niniz as I run around and play with Jazmine.

Saturday morning , My cousin Ana, invited me to a bike ride and I said yes. I havent spent much time away from olive but thought this would be a perfect time to crate/ kennel train her as I will be returning to the hospital again in another short week and my babe will be home alone more (mama n bro work)

The Bike ride was Wonderful! Cruised it and just enjoyed beautiful santa barbara! The route was From the Eastside to Shoreline Park to the Cemetery, back home. Estimated maybe 10 miles?

Later we walked down state street with all the dogs KONA, NINIZ and OLIVE. Then Ana, Diana, Myself and Angelica (Diana's bf's Daughter) mobbed. Everyone DT was saying how Olive was so adorable and cute. Yay I win cuteness award, or at least my dog does! Olive is improving with a leash. After her second round of shots and my third Round of Chemo we're going to attempt hiking!

Hiking is a goal i've been looking forward to. For myself, in activity level, and for my canine buddy who will be roughing the terrains alongside. Learning experience for the both of us. I can't wait!

Olive- One week after Round 2

Hiii everyone!

I know its been a little while since I've posted a blog! Have No fear though! My health is in great condition! I have recently posted about my new pup, Olive. She's like a baby taking up all my time and i want to give her my full attention, she deserves it!

Olive, has been of great help! She has dereieved my focus on something else besides myself. I'm so obsessed watching her grow and develop,getting into mischeif and learning from her mistakes. I'm a proud doggy-mommy when she notifies me to get off the bed and go to the bathroom. Yes, its at 5 in the morning, but i'd rather wake up at 5, then having to wash my bedsheets at 5.

Right now im sitting on the porch and watching her play with her tennis ball, she's already lost or demolished like 4 of them. 

Later we have a doggydate with one of my friends Jenn who is the owner of a beautiful German Shepard named Asha. Yay for playdates :) I want my Little, soon not-to-be-little, Olive to be as social as she can be. Non-Aggressive and playful with other canines and of course human as well. We've gone to shoreline park and met other pooches along with their owners. Olive has really amazing cousins too like Kona (my cousin Diana's dog-Boxer 1yo) and Bonita aka Niniz (Auntie Lidia, Cousin Ana, Neice Jazmine-white curly haired 10 yo)

yay Olive!

Round 2, Day 3

I'm at the hospital for 5 days at a time, its Day 3 of this round and Its a little rougher- i have to admit! In the first round I already felt terrible, in a sense, coming into it, so while i was here i was Getting better because my cough and lumps were subsiding.

Round 2, I came into feeling pretty awesome, only to have the lethargy, stomach discomfort and constipation come back. Not being able to Poop is no joke! So I have to take stool softners  before bed every night, I refused a few times the first round because in my mind " oh i'm healthy, my body loves me, I don't want to depend on anything" Bad idea. So this time i'm taking the meds but those meds have their side effects too. Its like cramping and stomach churning Discomfort, for sure.

The decrease in exercise also has an impact becasue my metabolism has slowed down. Now add that to my high fat, high carb, decrease in fiber diet that i've been induldging in and I'm sure that doesn't help. Also i pee about 15x a day!

Last week, I ate whatever I wanted. Once that chemo hit yesterday, my appetite was gone! ahhh nothing sounds good! Nothing! I've eaten while I'm here but food does not taste like food :( byebye tastebuds for a little while again. I'll eat like twice a day. Give or take an hour I eat 5 hours after I wake up and pretty much get into starvation mode before i eat again. Im sure i'm hungry but its not until my stomach starts growling or my head starts aching that its like "yeaaa, i know im hungry, but no appetite!" oh the struggle and then DECIDING what to eat?! gee

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Who wants to see cool pictures of me and my cool PORT thingy? and my Robot. tehehe Medicine is so cool!

 ^^^R2,D1-- Post procedure. Just got my Port installed in me!

 ^^^ R2, D2 - Changed the dressing and there's minor bleeding. but there's this thing the size of a waterbottle cap Implanted in me so they can draw blood, give chemo without the millions of pokes! Its way more convenient and less painful than having a Pic line in my arm! They access everything they need from this little device thing!

 

^^^ R2, D3- You know just chillin with my ROBOT in my bikini top, yoga pants, trader joes hoodie and bandana. I gotta move this thing everywhere i go! i can be at max 4 feet away from it. Im plugged into it, its plugged into the wall. haha.

Feb. 5th Update!

I would love for everyone to meet my new Pup... Olive!

 This little beauty is a eleven-week old, female, bundle of JOY! Her breed in Australian Cattle Dog

 Cutie Patootie!

My hairs fallen out! Its like weird fuzzed out, idk how bald people do it, my heads like cold. whatever though. I wear a bandana or hat around people so they don't get all freaked out.

Well im back in the hospital for another 5 day stay. 

Its not a bad view from my room :) 

Round ✌, LET'S DO THIS!!