Assessments After Round 1.

Nausea?  Check.
Fatigue?  Check.

Hair loss?  Not yet.

There's also been: dry mouth, wicked-bad acid reflux, trouble remembering words; and my sharp organizational skills have taken a vacation.
Bone pain, especially in my hips (at least, up until I had an energy healing session, and then the hip pain went away).
Painful acne around my mouth.
My nose is constantly runny.
My hands are perpetually shaky!  And my already horrendous handwriting has turned in to chicken-scratches.  It was difficult to write a grocery list.

The mouth sores came on really quickly, but that didn't surprise me.  My poor mouth has always been tender.  I'm allergic to strawberries, and whenever I eat them my gums swell.  Strange, I know.  But I as soon as I read that mouth sores were a symptom of chemo, I knew I'd be getting them.

I constantly feel like I am melting, and sweat profusely.
It is the first time in my entire life that I have not longed to move to a warmer clime!  In fact, if it weren't for this whole cancer thing...  I'd be packing our bags, and telling my friend, Stephanie, to prepare her couch, because we'd be moving to Seattle for the summer!  But if I didn't have cancer, I probably wouldn't be roasting hot....  Whatever.  You get the idea.

I'll take the non-stop diarrhea.  Just because it means I am not constipated.  I think constipation is the worse, of the two.

Jenny gave me a book called, What to Eat if You Have Cancer.  It advocates for a vegetarian diet. 
Strangely, though, I have been CRAVING meat.  Give me protein!
I'm siding with the beef, I figure my body is trying to tell me what it needs?  And it hasn't made me throw up.
Conversely, my tastes have changed a bit.  I've never been a huge chocolate fan. But these days, chocolate is gross. And then, there was the morning that I poured myself a bowl of Honey Comb cereal... I took one bite & gagged. Disgusting. It tasted NOTHING like what I remember it tasting like, just a few short weeks ago.
The nausea seems to come on strong in the middle of the night.  Nice.
And when I'm in the car.

Also, my sense of smell has been heightened.  Ugh.

So far, chemo has seemed like it's making me re-live all of the worst side-effects I experienced during pregnancy.  If it weren't so icky, it'd be almost comical.