home from vacation and having CT/PET this Thursday

Hi Everyone,

I jusst returned home from vacation. We had a busy, but very good time! Now for the unpacking and laundry...
This is such an active board that I missed so much in the week and a half I've not been checking in- wow! I've skimmed over a few of your posts, but haven't commented on any yet.

I felt pretty good on my vacation. I had very little issues with Xeloda side effects, thank goodness, except for that I had a major issue with the hand/foot syndrome- just in my feet though. I was walking on water blisters that turned into bloody blisters for six days of walking the mall in Wash DC, Philadelphia, two days of walking downtown Manhatten, and a day at Six Flags in NJ. I hobbled along and tried not to complain for the sake of my family. I really wanted to walk and see everything, so I suffered through it. Amazingly, the blisters healed up in a hurry within two days after stopping the Xeloda this past Monday p.m., so I was glad for that.

We lucked out with GREAT weather each day of our trip! Being from So. California, I'm not used to humidity and was really dreading hot humid weather. Well, things steamed up here at home within a couple of days after we left apparently, but we enjoyed the "unseasonably cool" weather on the east coast. We only experienced rain, thunder/lightning one time for about two hours one evening (which was a fun novelty for my kids to experience). Our days in NY City were beautiful clear skies with temps in the upper 70's or low 80's. Absolutely wonderful! Now here at home today is very hot- 94 at the moment, and our satellite thermometer showed yesterday's high was 99- ugh! Half our lawn is dead even though I had the sprinkler timer on 5 days/week. We're having a drought and water rationing is in effect. We're only supposed to water 3 days/wk for 10 min. per sprinkler station. Here, I disobeyed the rules and had it on twice that and everything is still all crunchy. Bummer! Oh well, at least we had the great weather on our trip!

I have a CT/PET scan scheduled for this Thursday, July 23rd. I am hoping, of course, for good results- either "all clear" or at least that nothing has gotten any worse. My PET on April 2nd showed nothing, but the CT two weeks prior to that still showed numerous nodules in my lungs. I have my new oncologist now & I have an appt. w/ him next week Tuesday. I think I'll still go to the hospital records room and get my results before seeing him, as I've done each time in the past year or so.

Well, blessings to you all & I'll start checking in with more regularity again probably tomorrow after I get the laundry done, suitcases put away, etc.

Hugs,
Lisa