Saturday, February 1

I slept better last night, though still felt tired today, with the same leg pain emerging as in the first cycle. I really don't want to take any more steroids so I took Claritin and Tylenol (PA's recommendation), which helped a little, and walked a mile around the track at the Schenley Oval this morning, which helped a lot. Andrew and I took Farrah on a walk down to the library later in the day as well so I could pick up some holds. Walking really makes the muscle pain better. 

The girls had well visits this morning with the pediatrician, which went fine; Lucia is catching up with Greta height-wise: Greta is 5'5" and Lucia is now 5'3". They may end up the same height in the end. 

Back home, we watched The Way Home (which we had to record last night since Lucia was out) and a few episodes of Lost. See? I'm relaxing. Just sitting around watching TV with the kids, and then reading a book.  

Andrew made fried fish sandwiches for dinner tonight, then the kids went to see a play at their school. While they were gone, Andrew and I watched a couple episodes of Hacks. 

It was a good quiet day. If I had to compare chemo cycles 1 and 2, right now I'd say they're about the same, with the added bitter taste in my mouth. I've noticed that olives and capers taste the worst--I had black olives in a salad yesterday and capers in my tuna fish sandwich today. And they are bitter in a way that is just awful. Easy enough to avoid those for now. 

Time for some reading and then sleep.