It's True I'm done with Chemo

I had my appointment today with my oncologist to confirm that I am, indeed, done with chemo!! She wrote my script to get out my port, and they drew blood a few times. They are hoping (and I'm praying) that the port comes out in the next 7 days, or at least that's how long my blood they drew is good for, I guess they are checking for the ability of clotting. (There's a better word for that and I know what it is, but I can't get spell check to find it, so I'm leaving it out!)

They said I am post menopausal and I was curious what that meant, so I asked "what does post menopausal mean?" and ( I really like this nurse practitioner, she is really very sweet and helpful) and her answer was "it's not peri-menopausal and it's not premenopausal it's post menopause." Ok, that told me nothing, what happened to menopause, did I just skip over it, was it masked under my chemo so I didn't recognize it?

They warned me when I started chemo that I would come to the menopause cliff and be pushed off, so I was expecting them to tell me, "your in menopause" you know that cliff you jumped off of, but now I'm just post menopausal and again am a little foggy on what exactly that means. I get it means I can't get pregnant (thank goodness) and I get that I'm "changed" but no one seems to know exactly what that means.

I came home and looked it up and of course, it was as clear as mud. At the end of the day, I am post menopausal and I guess I slept through the rest of it. I am only having hot flashes, a few at night, and that seems to be my only side effect.

That would be all I learned today!!