No chemo today

Yesterday I went for my pre-chemo doctor appointment. After hearing my symptoms from the past 3 weeks of a tight chest, arm pain, tired and nauseated the doctor poked and prodded. Enter doctor #2. More poking and prodding. A collective shrug summed up what they thought had created my past three weeks of troubles. Unfortunately they had very good imaginations for things that were possible candidates. I walked out requiring a chest x-ray and an ECG for my heart and with instructions of what to do if certain past symptoms reappeared. I thought it was just another day of using all the cancer center's fancy equipment.

The phone call in the afternoon let me know that the chest x-ray showed a dark area in the upper portion of my left lung that could have been residual effects of pneumonia (maybe that was the chest tightness but I never had any coughing). It was getting better but this likely explained a bunch of my symptoms. It could also be that my port is leaking but he didn't think it looked like cancer. For me, it's nice to have something that regular people get. Unfortunately that means no chemo tomorrow. That'll be the first one that I've missed but it's going to be delayed until after the CT scan next week. The doctors will take a closer look at how things are going in my liver, and then decide what to do next for chemo. As for the pneumonia, it's getting better on its own so I don't get anything for it.

I called the Tom Baker this morning to see if I still go in for Herceptin or not. Looks like chemo is off but Herceptin is on. They want to keep that one on schedule. Looks like I am supposed to see my doctor again as well. I'll update the blog when things are less confusing.

This weekend might be more enjoyable than I had expected (if I don't sleep through it).

Love
Carolin