Let the Bodies Hit the Floor, Let the Bodies Hit the Floor.

Menopause Drug:

So I spent 2 weeks pumping my body full of drugs to produce eggs, enlarge my ovaries and all that jazz. Then on Monday 5/4/15 I went to VVH and was given my injection of zoladex, or what I like to call my menopause drug. From one extreme to the other. So far I haven’t had any side effects! The only side effects I am having are my super enlarged ovaries which are not allowing me to work out for another 3 weeks! I am going crazy with that idea. How do people not work out? It just makes you so happy and feel so healthy. The things we do for our future children! Next stop is the chemo infusion, which I am ready to start! I want to start attacking this cancer. 

Collapse:

Thursday morning at 12:30 AM I woke up feeling weird. I had some cramping, some constipation, and just overall tenderness going on around my lower abdomen. After multiple attempts of going to the bathroom, with being slightly successful I am still feeling worse and worse and getting shaky. I decide I should probably wake Tony up at this point. I stand in the doorway of our bedroom and quietly say his name. No response. I am losing energy and know I need to get him up asap. So I scream his name. Poor guy. He jolts awake and instantly knows things are not good. For the medical professional that he is, he asks me questions and tries to assess the situation. I'm not giving him a lot to go on because I really don't know what the crap is going on with my body. We end up back in our bathroom and thankfully he was standing next to me because I faint. Yup, full on collapse from a standing position to the ground. Again, being a great Physical Therapist that he is, he's trained in catching people and thankfully he did. For me it felt like a dream, I could hear him talking to me and feel him holding me. For him I think it was a lot more intense. 

I don't think I looked this cute when I fainted. 

It was a long night of questions and a few moments of wondering if we should visit the ER. We waited until the morning and called the docs. No one really knows what the crap happened. They didn't think the zoladex would be in my system yet. The fertility docs didn't think it had anything to do with their drugs. Tony was super sick with the flu a few days earlier and all day Thursday I felt pretty crappy so I wondered if perhaps I got a touch of that? Who knows, but since then I haven't fainted again.  Tony and I did create a gameplan for Thursday while he was at work. If I felt light headed at all, I was supposed to just hit the ground. Like full on Stop. Drop. And Roll. style....without the roll. And Lubby & Conway made sure to keep an eye on me too. 

The weekend came and I was finally able to get outside and enjoy the town I love. We hiked some, did a very light,controlled, not intense workout, which felt AMAZING to be back in the gym and spent the afternoon in Aspen with friends. In a few days we begin chemo and I am so ready to start killing this cancer!