Had a phone appointment with Barb from my oncology team this morning. (She’s my oncologist’s assistant.) I didn’t look at the scans’ results or even the message from her. I was reluctant to find out about it. She said it was all good. Most of it was normal. I looked at the results later and saw the only problem was a herniated disk in my spine, I think. Not really a big deal. I normally have at least a lung nodule, but they said this time there wasn’t anything. I told her about being sick for like 3.5 weeks. I still have a runny nose sometimes. She didn’t like that. She asked if I went to Urgent Care to get it checked out, and I said no. She asked if I talked to Varsha (my oncology pharmacist) about it, again I said no. She said she might ask Varsha to call me about it. She thinks I might need to stop Ibrance in order to give my body a chance to really fight whatever it is. I brought up how I have extremely flaky skin. Even the person that did my pedicure was surprised by it. They kept trying to scrub it away. She asked if I drink a lot of fluid. I said I might have more than I used to. She suggested I should have even more. She also suggested I use Aquaphor. She wants me to have a bone scan next month. She thought getting a bone scan with the brain MRI and CT scans would be too much at once. I said I’m going to start glowing soon, and she laughed. She also wants me to have an in-person appointment next month. She said she wants to do the bone scan every 6 months. My last one was in February. So, it’s best to have it next month. If things are mostly ok in my scans, I don’t know what’s up with some of my recent symptoms. Like, the twitching (lip and eyelid) and tingly hands. Maybe it’s med related? I have a phone appointment with my palliative care doctor tomorrow.














