This picture is demonstrating how empty handed I was leaving the blood test lab.
The first time I got a blood test after being diagnosed they presented me with a little box. I thought, “Weird. I need to give a urine sample and the container is in this box? But I opened it to find this.
chocolate or soap? It was chocolate!
They told me it was a present from the lab. Then the women all showed me the necklaces they were wearing which were the cancer support symbol. 🎗🎗.
(Interesting side note. Each cancer has a different color ribbon. Ovarian cancer is teal. Breast cancer is pink. Yellow is several different cancers.)
I assumed this was going to be an ongoing gift but it must have been a one time only “Welcome to cancer” gift.
Not that I’m complaining. I’m trying to cut out sugar so I shouldn’t be eating chocolate anyway. There is also a supermarket in the same building so I can buy all the after blood draw candy I want. But still seems like I should at least get a sticker.
Today I bring the blood test results to the oncologist and then hopefully start the chemo tomorrow.
I hate saying chemo a hundred times a day so my new code word is Wasabi. As in tomorrow when I get my first Wasabi dose.