Well, ever since day 5 (it's now day 11), my overall feeling has been 'normal'. I still tend to run out of juice after a half day, but the hangover feeling is basically gone. Counting the days until Thursday when my next chemo round happens. I'm actually looking forward to it. Sorta odd, but if it's the solution, gimme more!
The cuts are healing well and the hair is still firmly in place. Tim came over to the house with Bella and Matthew and crashed here on Friday and the Chandler's came over with their kids on Saturday night. Thanks again for the kind words. I'll try to post another blog on Thursday. That's my next chemo day. Thanks for all the kind words...
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Hi Bill,
ReplyDeleteI just learned from Kirsten about your diagnosis and that you are undergoing chemo. As you may remember, I have had the pleasure of chemo. I did not have a port, they just stuck a needle in my arm each week and poured the poison in. I also got to take an oral poison pill daily. The manifestations you described following the treatments are somewhat similar to mine, although you are on a very different regimen than I had -- different cancers. For me, I was basically o.k. for the first couple of days following the infusion, then I crashed for a couple of days or so. Then I would start to come back to life and be pretty much o.k. in time for the next round. Pretty much o.k., meant I was good for about 3-4 hours of pretty active life and then that would be it for the rest of the day.
I don't know whether you are doing anything to supplement your nutritional side during this process, but I would strongly encourage you to do so, if you are not. I am firmly convinced that is what helped me handle the treatments as well as I did -- no weight loss, reasonable energy levels, no deleterious impact on markers such as platelets, white and red blood cell counts, etc. If you are interested in what I did, I will be happy to email you the regimen I followed. But, whatever, do as much as possible to nutritionally help your immune system deal with the onslaught of chemo and cancer. BTW, your docs may not agree since most of them don't know much about nutrition.
Anyway, good luck in this process -- it is a process.
Cheers,
John Betak
John,
ReplyDeleteThanks. If you have your nutrition regimen, I'd love to have a copy, or you can post it here for other to read and hopefully have as a resource as well.