small updates

for the completionists, and the ones who have hodgkins who will come later who will want to know all...

About a week out of treatment weird skin things started to happen. Not just one, or two, but three things at the same time. I got this weird rash on my wrist that went away, then came back, then went away again in the space of two weeks. During this time a strange grouping of red dots appeared just below my left sideburn (at first i thought i had cut myself shaving, but it was in fact a skin 'happening'). And to top it all off (literally) my scalp started going nuts with itching...

Since this is the year of strange medicine for me, I figured i would play it safe and see the dermatologist before this devolved into another year of chemo (and another blog). Luckily all was well, by the time I got there the rashes had gone down and the scalp healed itself (with the help of some tea tree oil). The doctor explained that much like a cold sore virus that lays dormant for years only to rear its ugly head, little things that the chemo and radiation had repressed were coming out of the woodwork that is my skin. As I had seen they would soon run their course and soon (hopefully) I will be skin-ailment free.

just so you know! thanks to all for the well wishes, flowers and the surprise party... you are so very kind