It has been a while since I written something on my blog. Many things happened the past year not only to me but to the whole world. Everyone’s life been affected by Covid-19 yet here I am still stuck with my battle fighting the side effects from the treatments.

Zometa (zolcdronic acid) Injection is a bisphosphonate used to treat Paget’s disease, high blood levels of calcium caused by cancer (hypercalcemia of malignancy), multiple myeloma(a type of bone marrow cancer), or metastatic bone cancer. Zometa is also used to treat or prevent osteoporosis in postmenopausal women, and to increase bone mass in men with osteoporosis. -Source: https://www.rxlist.com/zometa-drug.htm

I took Zometa every 6 months ever since taking hormonal therapy so as to decrease the chances of bone cancer. I was told that I would get flu like symptoms after the infusion of zometa which I thought it was something that I could handle easily.

Each time after zometa, my side effects will developed at times not immediately but a week later. The immediate effect of tiredness is felt and I would need to sleep it off the entire day.

While on zometa, you are advised not to do any dental procedures as you may get jaw infection as zometa hardens your bones and gums. Therefore, I can only do the cleaning and polishing of my teeth 1 week before and if I need to do any extraction I must first inform my oncologist, get permission, take antibiotics for a week prior to the procedure to reduce the possibilities of jaw infection.

I still remembered after my 1st zometa infusion , I had a fall at home due to low blood sugar and suffered a hairline fracture at my lower back. As zometa will harden the bones, the hairline fracture did not heal properly that I suffer from severe back pain which renders me to be bedridden in those times. Till now, 3 years down I still suffer from those back pain but life still goes on.

Now even if I do stretching exercises, my back will hurt for days.

Sometimes, I wonder why the cancer treatments made us suffer more than it’s benefitting us.

15 December 2020, a day I will always celebrate as it was my last of my 6 sessions of zometa. I don’t have to put the needle into my veins, suffer the side effects for 6 months starting June 2021, hopefully my lower back pain will slowly subside and eventually be gone. But for now, I will just bite my teeth and bear with the pain till June 2021.

” The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.” – Henry Ward Beecher

I hope that I will always see every little milestones as blessings to me.