It's April Again...
...and you know what that means? I can't wait for this month to be OVER. Thankfully, my husband's birthday is nestled into the middle of the month, which at least gives me something to look forward to, but yeah, April can just get the f*** out. I was diagnosed with stage four cancer in April 2013. In April 2014, I had recently discovered that I was no longer NED and was taking a truly heinous mix of Irinotecan and Erbitux, which gave me terrible acne-like blemishes all over my head, scalp, neck and chest and also made my hair shed so much that I had to cut most of it off and it still hasn't grown back to my liking! I wound up in the hospital in April 2015 and then went home trailing my new oxygen sidekick, who stuck around for about 10 months. This month...this month my platelets have decided to quit cooperating entirely - which means I can't take my chemo! - and so Wells (my oncologist) wants me to have a partial splenic embolization in about 5 weeks. This means they&#