Monday, Sept. 24th I hit an all-time LOW. My flu syptoms came back in full swing with plenty of the "best" yuckiness you can imagine. I was a wreck - just ask poor Jim who was here with me that day.
Tuesday I was feeling a bit better, shakiness aside. I refused to eat or drink much. Finally at about noon, I get a call from the Onc's office, "Uh... you forgot your chemo check-up appointment today." I had been so out of it, that I forgot totally. I rescheduled. Thankfully my Onc called me right back to check on me via phone. I told her I was having flu symptoms; fever, vomiting, diarhea, shakes, etc. She told me to come in to the office right away. I went, they took blood, and found out I was exremely dehydrated, had an extremely low white blood cell count, and toxicities that could lead to infection. I had also lost 12 lbs. So I was admitted in to the hosptial on Tuesday afternoon for fluids, antibiotics, and other meds for nausea, etc. I was in there for two days to get everything back under control. Long story short, (TOO LATE), I was discharged on Thursday afternoon and as of today I'm doing better.
Good news is we found out some things. First of all my nausea meds were giving me the shakes. I don't have those anymore. THANK GOD. I mean we were talking SILLY, GOOFY shakes here, folks. Not just minor shakes. We also went through a stream of nausea meds in the hospital that we found out don't work for me. Ativan seems to be my best bet. Heck as I type this, I'm not on any meds at all. Another thing we found out is too many Advil can be a BAD THING. I was poppin' Advil like no tomorrow for pain. This, along with the dehydration, was on its way to permanently hurting my kidneys. Thankfully they caught it in time. No perm damage. Lastly we found out my bod doesn't take kindly to that particular dose of chemo. So she's going to give me an extra week to recover, and then lower the dosage to an amount my bod can handle. HOPEFULLY.
I have some follow-up visits this week with the kidney doctor and the Onc. I'm also going to see my PS and talk about having my expanders removed. They're driving me I N S A N E. No offense Pam Anderson, but this crap isn't worth it. So I've decided to be flat as a pancake for a year. THEN I'll look at recon options.
Besides, I like being flat.
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