Still hanging in there...............

Thanks for all the e-mails & facebook messages wondering if I'm ok since I haven't posted on the blog in almost a week.  I'm in Maine for a short vacation and my cousins wedding.  Before leaving I had a day of chemo, day of hydration and day of iron, at which point I got sick for the first time and then left on a plane.  Once here, I again got sick, not a pleasant occurrence anytime, but made more uncomfortable by being in a hotel room, not my own bathroom or bedroom.  However, I powered thru it and made it thru to another day. The wedding, which was on the ocean at a beautiful mansion was spectacular to say the least. ( I will post some pictures of facebook when I get home in a few days).  Once again, I got sick and had to leave just after eating and missed the dessert, blueberry pie, homemade ice cream and whoopie pies!!.  At this point, I guess I might be giving too much info, but it's what happens.....so if you want to quit reading do so now.....With all the drugs combined with the chemo ones stomach gets screwed up..ie..constipated.  I really needed to" go," and every time that food got put in, it just "exploded" and I'd have terrible cramps and break out in a sweat. This has happened the last time, so it's really nothing "new", but is awful to have to go thru.  So I ended up taking laxatives and of course things started working at 12:30pm and kept me up all night!!  Also my emotions got the best of me and the tears started to fall and wouldn't stop.  I have to admit, this is the first time that I've really cried this hard since being diagnosed again.  And again, a hotel room is not the most "comforting" place to be having a "mild breakdown", and especially missing Abby and my friends not being here to help me .  But  I got thru it and have making the best of my time here.  I have a few days left and when I get home I start right back on chemo....I will be 2 cycles in and have only one more to go before having a cat scan to see if and how much the tumor has shrunk.  From what I have been told, I will have a total of 6 cycles so I'm almost 1/2 way there!!!  Thanks for all your prayers and good karma being sent my way...xoxo