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Withdrawal

January 27th, 2010
Posted in Chemotherapy . Leukemia . Pain . Treatment
By Austin

One of the stranger symptoms I experienced from Leukemia before I began treatment was night sweats. I never really understood how or why my body would choose to sweat so profusely and only when I was trying to get some sleep. After my diagnosis I found out it’s a big red flag that can indicate blood [ READ MORE ]

IV Free!

January 26th, 2010
Posted in Food . Treatment
By Austin

No IVs baby! Now that I’ve given up the morphine I currently have no IV meds between a 10:00 pm dose of Meropenem and a 6:00 am dose of Doxycycline. I convinced my RN that the best way to keep me from yanking this catheter out of my neck in my sleep was to simply [ READ MORE ]

Blood Products

January 26th, 2010
Posted in Chemotherapy . Leukemia . Treatment
By Austin

For several days I’ve been lucky to be one of the uninteresting patients on the HEMONC unit, all my blood counts have been either stable or trending upwards and many of my symptoms / chemo side-effects have been clearing up. It’s been in every way a good thing but on some level it’s a little [ READ MORE ]

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