Archive for the ‘ Chemotherapy ’ Category

Yeah, F*ck February!

I took a quick glance over my old posts and saw the title “It’s really February?” I remember writing that and being amazed that my body was able to survive through treatment as long as it had… so… now we all know how I feel about that. I’ve lost anything approaching continuity at this point [ READ MORE ]

Relapse

Another 3 months since my last post, that seems to be my schedule for the time being. I always noticed that other bloggers tended to fall off the face of the earth when they get released or begin a less intense phase of treatment. In my case I just didn’t see the use in ruminating [ READ MORE ]

Restrictions Apply

It turns out my approximated transplant schedule in my previous post was fairly accurate. I was admitted on Friday, March 19th for an Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant. That evening I had two lines surgically inserted 1) a ‘temporary’ central line on the left of my neck that will remain for my stay here at the hospital [ READ MORE ]

New Skin

It’s been a while since my last post – Since then I’ve undergone one more cycle of the high-dose methotrexate and was re-admitted this morning for a third and final round.  The chemotherapy hasn’t been too bad aside from some nausea for a few days after the dose but the constant back-and-forth of being discharged and [ READ MORE ]

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 ]

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 ]

My old view from 765 Feldberg at BIDMC


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