Serious Case of the Mondays

One week from 1st chemo infusion and I am feeling pretty good. Except for this one nagging thing that won't go away. HEADACHE. I have had a headache since Saturday at 12:37 am when it woke me up from sleep. This was a cue on how sleeping was going to go for the whole weekend. Despite being Sleepless Sara I had a great weekend. I celebrated my 31st birthday with friends and family. Had lots of laughs and good food. Day time was good. But night time, when it comes to laying down right now my head wants to explode. The headache also turned me into the crazy patient. Two phone calls to the oncologists, on the night time on call oncologist and one to my regular oncologists to make sure it was fine that I had a headache. Which it is ok that I have a headache, unfortunate, but ok.

Sunday Night
This was not pretty. While trying to get comfortable I threw my back out. I was staying at my parents house Sunday night, so my mother found me in their living room swearing at the heating pad that refused to turn on at 1 am. She got me settled back into my bed as comfortable as possible (and ran around the house looking for pillows of various thickness to help out) and went to hunt down migraine medication for herself [sidenote; I am a wimp with a headache. This woman spent more than 9 months straight with a migraine and 3 days sent me over the edge].

Monday Morning
I sleep for about 3-4 hours total and not consecutively. I have nightmares about missing college students, awesome work brain. My back and head both hurt, but I decide to go to work. And I would say this is the general way I felt yesterday morning:

I keep storming my way through the day, make it through lunch (a lunch in which my boss made a delicious cake for my birthday), but then started to crack. For the first time in my life I went home form work sick. My mom picked me up (sounds like I am 12) and brought me back to my apartment. Being home, my exhaustion took over and I cried because I was tired and my head hurt. And then based on the recommendations from my oncologist I took some medication and slept for 10 hours.

Terrific Tuesday
I woke up feeling like a human being. Went to work and did not let the darkside back in. Worked a full day. Headache still in tact, but hopefully can still get some more sleep in. Thankfully, sense of humor is back with vengeance today [please see sarcastic voicemails left on multiple phones].