Annoyances

You would be surprised at how long the effects of chemotherapy last. Here it is two weeks since my last chemo and there are definite effects still present. The primary one is that my white blood cell count is still very low, slightly improved after my shots last week, but not nearly what the shots have done previously. There are also slight annoyances which I will discuss shortly.

Meanwhile I have another 20 days before I meet with Dr. Patel and 12 days till my petscan. A nice holiday!

I am heartbroken that Dr. Haider, one of the many women in my life has left Moffitt for Tampa Bay General. I will see another doctor in early September, but it will not be Dr. Haider.

Over the past week, I have accumulated the top ten annoyances currently in my life:

10. I previously talked about my problem with odd numbers of eggs in the carton. While I have made some progress, it now bothers me when the number of eggs left in the carton is not divisible by three since that is the number of eggs that we eat each morning.

9. I cannot stand the little horse in the Dr. Pepper commercials. If you have not seen one of these adds, celebrate your good fortune. They are as annoying as political ads.

8. I still have neuropathy in both fingers and toes. Apparently it takes at least 6 months to improve.

7. It annoys me when my tennis opponents call one of my shots out when it is clear to me that the shots are in. It is equally annoying when I call a shot out and they believe it was in.

6. My nails are brittle and split easily.

5. People often do not understand what I am saying. I can't believe that almost everyone in my life needs hearing aids!

4. There are people who put the toilet paper on the roll so that the next sheet is at the back of the roll rather than coming over the top and down the front. Apparently, it may take a rocket scientist to change the toilet paper roll.

3. Dr. Haider has left the building. At least the one that I used to meet her in.

2. I still get tired easily. I think this is largely related to the white blood cell count. Hopefully it will improve.

1. Oh, darn. I can't remember number one. But that is common, with chemo brain, I often forget things.

I know that each day we should count our blessings. That is easy. It is having all of you in my life.