Liver Issues

I have now been off of chemo for just over a month now.
Things had been going pretty good .... or so I had thought.

This past weekend I started to have the feelings of inflammation in my liver. Not a nice feeling.
Accompanied with that was soreness and some pain.
This seemed to last all weekend. By Sunday night, I had had enough. This was starting to get to me, stress me out greatly and make me wonder if this was the end.
I started to have a little mini panic attack late Sunday night and just could not sleep.
This went on for hours, crying and getting stressed over this. Finally, I figured that this is no good, stress ads to the problems and just helps the cancer grow, so, I took half a morphine so that I would just sleep, I did and the next thing I knew, it was Monday morning.

I called the Oncologist, waited for a reply to the message I had left.
That was just not happening so I went in to see my family Dr. He had said that my liver was for sure enlarged slightly, he could feel the edges but that part was not too concerning. The fact that I had pain was.

He ordered blood work. Just before I went to have that done, the oncologist's office called and ordered blood work for Wednesday (today) and set up an appointment to see her on Friday to go over the results and hopefully get some answers to what is going on.

If its the cancer active again, well, at least they are on it quick. If its not, I sure would like to know what is going on and why my liver has now had a couple of bad episodes.

I had my first port flush yesterday. I was able to have that done locally so I did not have to go all the way to Vancouver.
It went really well, in and out so fast.

Ethan and I spent the rest of the afternoon outside filling up his swimming pool and then going for a slosh.
We may just do the same today.

I bought two new books. One is called From Incurable to Incredible
It is written by a lady with metastatic breast cancer to the liver.
She as far as I know is doing very well 8yrs later.
She has compiled stories from many cancer survivors that were given a bleek diagnosis but have seem to have beaten the odds.
Very interesting, I can not wait to read it and see what they have done.

The other book is "The Cancer Prevention Diet" - The Macrobiotic approach to preventing and relieving cancer.

I will write little reviews on both of them as I go.

Other than that, I am just living.

I am surrounded by my amazing family and friends who check in with me daily.
Thank you to all of you, especially those who have been so busy lately but still have had us over for a visit and have dropped in.

It has made this last week/ weekend of worrying a lot easier for me.

That is about all I can write for now as my arm is quite swollen.