LOL!!! If only!! Remember waiting for Saturday morning just so you could watch cartoons!! Now, they have a whole channel just for cartoons! Hehe!!
I'm doing ok. Last week was really hard, the pain got pretty pain again but I had my infusion last Thursday and its getting better again. Its funny, even when I am having what I consider a relative good day, my hands are still swollen and hurt. Granted, they hurt less and sometimes the swelling is a little less but they are always visibly swollen. Crazy. Its funny yours feel better with the heat, the heat makes me worse, especially my breathing.
They had a hard time with my last infusion. I have IC, which is basically an irritable bladder (seems most every body part is irritable now a days!LOL!  ) So because my bladder was especially irritable last week, I didn't drink much and was a bit dehydrated. They had to poke me 6 times, rotter root around a lot and blew three veins. I finally got my juice as I call it though.
The nurses usually have difficulty with my veins but that was the worse. Remember, I go to the oncology ward so these are very practiced nurses! The nurses really want me to get a cath port surgically implanted in my chest but it seems that just having the port increases your risk of getting blood clots elsewhere in your body, they won't do it until its a last resort as I just underwent treatment for many blood clots. I am ok with that, I can handle the needle pokes and bruised arms, its small potatoes comparatively!
Overall though the treatments are helping. I seem to be having more better days. I am never pain free and have a lot of wacky crap but overall, I am ok.
Will and I had a HUGE talk about a month ago and we have been doing really well. That is really helping to cut my stress levels down and increase my overall happiness!
I am slowing trying to do more and become active in life again. Its been a long, hard road but I think things will work out. I will probably never be disease or pain free but at least now I know whats wrong and can work with learning to live with it! 
Thanks for asking!! Anything new on your end?
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