Got through 2 days of work somewhat-
I've been juicing a lot, and feeling pretty good- I'm just getting tired a lot more easily.....
Feeling ok.... I don't get heartburn usually but it's here today....small mouth sores have been popping up every so often.
I hope this isn't a result of pushing myself too much this weekend. That would suck.
I had another awesome Reiki session with Beth again last night....really intense- I pretty much left my body during the entire thing and Beth wound up getting sick afterwards a little bit. I felt bad.
Another stupid thing I noticed is my feet. I hardly ever wear shoes- I've always been that way. My feet are toughies, so they were feeling ok until yesterday when I noticed that part, right under the little piggie that went wee wee wee all the way home, that touches the floor hurt. Like I stepped on a sharp rock somewhere and it hurt later on. It bothered me a little last night but nothing too bad. Felt ok today- I just thought I bruised it somewhere.
Until today when Melody asked me to take her outside and see the flowers (all the container gardens and vegetables growing outside) - I picked her up to show her the plants for a quick minute- and walked out barefoot on the concrete and now my foot REALLY hurts. I didn't walk on anything but flat concrete.
I put flip flops on and iced it a bit- but it's swollen now and I can't put too much weight on it.
Ugh.
Doctor Google tells me this could be what they call hand-foot syndrome, a side effect of the chemo drug Adriamycin. It apparently finds its way into small capillaries in the feet and hands, and then leaks out into surrounding tissue when those capillaries get injured. and that chemo drug is not kind to tissue. It's irritating.
No more bare feet. Nancy, you told me that too and I didn't think a walk around an area rug would do much damage.
I called the doctor on call at Virtua just to make sure and he told me to ice it - I may have stepped on something and broken a blood vessel. He told me if it's worse tomorrow, Dr Cairoli will be the guy on call and to get in touch with him then. Until then, ice.
You can't diagnose anything over the phone.
My town is just way too small with too many cars to get caught in the middle of during fireworks traffic....
No work tomorrow- just Thursday and Friday and then back to AC #4 on Monday. 8am sharp.
and speaking of extremities- my hands have been itching to create something lately. It's driving me nuts to not be able to sit and make up some art because I'm either too tired and need to lie down or the energy it takes to bust out all supplies and then clean up after a major dye session or sewing project.
I was able to get some computer art done that took some minutes. It satisfied the hunger a little bit like a bag of peanuts in an airplane.
I also got to digitize a painting of my friend Jonathon Blake's (Crazyredbeard) into embroidery today. With glow in the dark thread! Not my art- but it was fun recreating it in embroidery. :)
Here's to an early night of rest, and better feet tomorrow....
love....
b
