My First Full Week With No Tomo!

Today, it has officially been ONE week since treatment ended! One whole week! I've noticed a few slight changes. First off, I drank some tea today! Woohoo! It doesn't burn too bad, but I have so much mucus in my throat that when I drink the tea it makes me cough up more mucus, so I'm hoping there's an end in sight to the mucus problem. I want to drink my tea without worrying about how much mucus it's going to bring up. Also, I've only had two major loogies today. It used to be that I had one every couple of hours. I'm hoping this means my throat is healing up. My mouth sores are still there, and when my pain pills are wearing off, I definitely know they are there (especially the new one at the back of my throat) but they are not as bad as they have been. My neck has shown a lot of improvement. It is still red, but it is not as large an area as it used to be. Also, it used to all be cracked and oozing, but now it's just scabby in a few places. Here are some pictures:

I still have some swelling above my scar. 

I'm hoping I can start massaging it again when those sores go away!

 My brother was taking pictures of me 

and I can't smile very well yet so they kept turning out horrible. 

This is take three. This is my frustrated look 

because he kept snapping pictures and cracking up laughing.

So, I'm getting there. Even though I'm not coughing up huge loogies as often, I'm still coughing up a little at a time. Also, the past two nights I've slept really well so yesterday and today I managed to get out of bed and stay up all day! Oh well. I have no big plans for the weekend. I was going to go watch the hot air balloons on Saturday with my brother but with my white blood cell counts low, I think I better stay away from crowds for now. I think we're going to try and catch the ones in Natchez in October. It won't be as hot then either! My mom has the dogs until Saturday because I feel bad for them sleeping all day with me. I don't have any problems taking them out, I just can't get down and play with them very well because of my feeding pump - we almost had major drama yesterday, Edgar ran through my cord and pulled the tape off my stomach but I stopped him in time before he pulled it out of my belly. He just pulled the cord out of the pump and made it go off so crisis averted. So, she's taking them for two days so they can go insane in her backyard and come back and sleep at home. 

OH! another funny dog story. The other morning when Warner left for work, he closed off the other bedroom and bathroom because Edgar had pooped in there. While laying in bed, I counted SIX times that Edgar ran into the closed doors trying to get in to run around the circle (they run through the bed room the bathroom and the living room when they are playing). SIX TIMES!! The poor thing just didn't get it! HA!