Chemo #3
This weeks treatments went a little quicker than usual. I only have to see the doctor before the Herceptin/chemo treatments and not before the "chemo only" treatments. If I don't have to see the doctor than I can have my blood drawn at the local labnear where I live and not at the Tom Baker. So that turned a 1 1/2 hr appointment into a 15 minute appointment.
Yesterday the nurse called me a 2:30 pm to give me my blood results. She said no chemo. I said "What!!". She said my neutrophils (a type of white blood cells) were too low. Mine are 1.1 and the bottom end of the range is 1.5. But I told her how good I was feeling. She said she would ask the doctor. At 5:00 pm he said as long as I was feeling good that we could go ahead.
So I will have to be extra careful for the next 10 days as not to catch anything. I am going into this chemo on a low point and it will only get lower. So no Superstore for me and lots of hand washing. And it is flu season as well.
So today my friend Colette and I went for chemo. The chemo wasn't ready because the order didn't make it to the pharmacy until this morning. So we got to go for coffee. We started chemo at 11 am and were done at 11:30 am. Nice and quick!
I had a nice nap when I got home and am feeling good right now. I am still not eatting much as my taste buds don't want to cooperate. But I am getting by. They see to be normalizing a bit but I don't want to get carried away with trying to many things yet. The Greek salad last night didn't get touched much.
I don't know if I wrote in the blog or not but about 3 weeks ago I pulled some muscles in my neck. They have been really sore and it hurts to shoulder check when driving, tipping my head back to drink and especially at night to turn over. I am seeing my chiropractor, having some massage therapy and taking some muscle relaxants when needed. So that is why I have not been at the gym the last few weeks. Thanks for all the Emails from my friends at WHC who have been concerned. I will be back as soon as I can. Worked out extra hard for me.
Well I hope that everyone has a nice weekend. I will take it easy and hope the neutrophils increase.
Love to everyone.
Carolin
Yesterday the nurse called me a 2:30 pm to give me my blood results. She said no chemo. I said "What!!". She said my neutrophils (a type of white blood cells) were too low. Mine are 1.1 and the bottom end of the range is 1.5. But I told her how good I was feeling. She said she would ask the doctor. At 5:00 pm he said as long as I was feeling good that we could go ahead.
So I will have to be extra careful for the next 10 days as not to catch anything. I am going into this chemo on a low point and it will only get lower. So no Superstore for me and lots of hand washing. And it is flu season as well.
So today my friend Colette and I went for chemo. The chemo wasn't ready because the order didn't make it to the pharmacy until this morning. So we got to go for coffee. We started chemo at 11 am and were done at 11:30 am. Nice and quick!
I had a nice nap when I got home and am feeling good right now. I am still not eatting much as my taste buds don't want to cooperate. But I am getting by. They see to be normalizing a bit but I don't want to get carried away with trying to many things yet. The Greek salad last night didn't get touched much.
I don't know if I wrote in the blog or not but about 3 weeks ago I pulled some muscles in my neck. They have been really sore and it hurts to shoulder check when driving, tipping my head back to drink and especially at night to turn over. I am seeing my chiropractor, having some massage therapy and taking some muscle relaxants when needed. So that is why I have not been at the gym the last few weeks. Thanks for all the Emails from my friends at WHC who have been concerned. I will be back as soon as I can. Worked out extra hard for me.
Well I hope that everyone has a nice weekend. I will take it easy and hope the neutrophils increase.
Love to everyone.
Carolin
1 Comments:
At 8:36 PM,
Anonymous said…
I will pray for those old neutrophils! You need those to fight with!
I always anxiously look for your latest blog so that I know how to pray for you. You are fighting such an amazing fight! Keep up the good work.
love, Aunt Linda
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