Day -7 Again
Not a lot to report today. Unless you call my first dose of chemotherapy a lot. It doesn’t feel like much – I feel fine, and I don’t dwell too much on thinking about its job of killing my bone marrow. I also had two units of packed red blood cells because I was getting more anemic. This morning, my WBC was at .8, my hemoglobin (Hgb) was 8.2, and my platelets (Plt) were 66 (up because of yesterday’s transfusion of platelets for my operation to install the Hickman catheter).
I really have noticed no effects of my chemo, although it is true that they give me prophylactic meds to ameliorate the expected unintended effects (like nausea, live damage, etc.). The chemo I get for the first 4 days is not expected to make me feel too bad. The one I get the last 2 days is rougher, but I still may not react for several more days until the blood counts have plummeted.
Although I haven’t really been bored much yet because of the nice stream of visitors I’ve had, I can understand how boredom can be a problem. I pretty much just stay in my one little room all day and night. I’m allowed to wander through the BMT unit, but all the other patients just stay in their rooms, too. The only other patient I’ve met and talked to briefly a few times is the one whose parents and girlfriend were at the orientation on Tuesday. I do sometimes wander around just to move around because I feel the need to do so.
I still haven’t successfully accessed the Internet to post to my blog, so these updates are piling up a little. I hope to remedy that soon.
With love,
I really have noticed no effects of my chemo, although it is true that they give me prophylactic meds to ameliorate the expected unintended effects (like nausea, live damage, etc.). The chemo I get for the first 4 days is not expected to make me feel too bad. The one I get the last 2 days is rougher, but I still may not react for several more days until the blood counts have plummeted.
Although I haven’t really been bored much yet because of the nice stream of visitors I’ve had, I can understand how boredom can be a problem. I pretty much just stay in my one little room all day and night. I’m allowed to wander through the BMT unit, but all the other patients just stay in their rooms, too. The only other patient I’ve met and talked to briefly a few times is the one whose parents and girlfriend were at the orientation on Tuesday. I do sometimes wander around just to move around because I feel the need to do so.
I still haven’t successfully accessed the Internet to post to my blog, so these updates are piling up a little. I hope to remedy that soon.
With love,
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FWIW, I thought Justin looked better on Saturday than he before going in. I attribute this to his positive attitude, the great support he is getting — including all the many prayers — and the transfusions he refers to here.
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