Archive for February, 2010

Home Again

Probably. I may be getting a little ahead of myself but I like to think by now I’m getting pretty good at the whole hospital thing. The only thing keeping me an inpatient is that my body has to clear the toxic amount of methotrexate in my system. The conversation went like this: Me: “So [ READ MORE ]

Vit-mins

One of the downsides of high dose methotrexate is I can’t eat anything with vitamin C or citric acid in it. Vitamin C actually increases the toxicity of the drug and for some reason citric acid can interfere with my body’s ability to clear the drug from my system. I had gotten pretty good with [ READ MORE ]

High-Dose Methotrexate

Finally got my next Chemotherapy phase started today with a whopping dose of methotrexate – can you guess which IV it’s in? Turns out the generic version is sold under the name “Mountain Dew.” Several of these chemotherapy drugs are florescent yellow, red, blue (i haven’t had the privilege of blue yet) – I’ve decided [ READ MORE ]

Theories

My back pain is clearing up by leaps and bounds on it's own without anything approaching a reasonable explanation as to what it was or why it's getting better. Fine, whatever - I'm always going to blame it on the whole spine / needle 'thing' but that's just me. [ READ MORE ]

Back to Business

Alright. Tuesday morning I’m excited to get my treatment started, the doctors decided to wait one more day to let my liver enzyme numbers drop a little more. Some of the medications I’d been on can cause your liver to go haywire and I need mine in tip top shape to process all the chemotherapy [ READ MORE ]

Pain

I’m in a terrible amount of pain – between my marathon headache which doesn’t respond to painkillers and I managed to tweak my spine somehow and for now i’m bedridden. I’m back on the morphine wagon big time. I have a lot I want to write about but just no will to do it right [ READ MORE ]

Up On The Roof Again

Sorry for the lapse in posts – I was discharged from the hospital early Wednesday afternoon with instructions to report back to be admitted at 8:30 am on Friday. I was overwhelmed with enjoying my time home (which I did) and never even thought to check my e-mail or write a new post. When I [ READ MORE ]

Going Home!

Yeah, surprised me too. My Absolute Neutrophil Count (ANC – a measure of the different kinds of white blood cells) spiked so sharply in the blood they took for today’s counts that I’m no longer classified as immuno-compromised and can continue my treatment as an outpatient. very exciting. The downside is that my numbers are so good [ READ MORE ]

2100

The wizard has given me a thumbs up – My midnight labs came back with a plethora of white blood cells compared to my previous tests and my magic number (needs to be 1000)  jumped from 920 to 2100. My nurse mentioned I should quit giving my white blood cells a hard time because they [ READ MORE ]

Pardon Me

I’m almost tired of saying it – another day waiting for my white blood cell counts to rebound before I qualify for the tests I need. There’s a complicated calculation involving several different kinds of my white blood cells – which can only be done by a trained wizard – which needs to equal 1000. [ READ MORE ]

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