It’s been a whirlwind- all those many, many bottles of pills did not turn my bowels into an obedient child as promised. This is a problem. Wednesday rolled around and my every other day calls, turned into daily updates.
Operation bowel watch- it’s real.
And somehow in the middle of this, we had a gross miscommunication. I was told my chemo treatments would be on Thursday, but my “sheet” had my appointment for Wednesday. I missed the change. So as Wednesday rolled around, imagine my surprise that I am calling my onc for my daily update as they are calling me to find out where I was.
Given operation bowel watch- was a watch, not a status update, the determination was made to cancel my chemo for the week. This came as a huge surprise, I didn’t imagine a treatment would be canceled this soon, and due to constipation.
I called the nurse, and clarified under what conditions they would be willing to go ahead with a treatment. It was pretty simple, my bowels had to cooperate. They finally cooperated at the 11th hour and I called the nurse bright and early Thursday morning to beg to have chemo this week. Can you believe I was begging to have Chemo?
They couldn’t do Thursday (as we had originally discussed but they could do Friday).
Chemo #2 was a go!
Cancer Ever After 
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