whoooooooooo!!!
(can i get a Whooo? c'mon....whooooo!)
I was supposed to get it on tuesday. When I went in my white blood cell count was dangerously low. (1.0....a normal person is more around 11-14 range). They want you to have at least a 3.0 in order to get treatment.
So they gave me a shot to boost it (lovely Neuprogen). And I was to come back the next day to see how it worked.
The next day...it only went up to 1.3 (er? the last time my counts were so low and I got a shot, the next day it shot up to 10.6! I was sorely disappointed.) Ssooooo, they gave me another shot of Neuprogen. And told me to come back the next day.
So now it's thursday, I come back in, get my blood tested. It went up to 2.9. Now, remember, I said they want you to be at least 3.0 to get treatment. But my oncologist said I could go ahead and get it that day b/c he was afraid I wouldn't come back if he told me to wait til next week (oh he knows me so well...cuz I damn sure wouldn't!)
They just tapered back the dose of Oxaliplatin (the main biggie drug I get over the course of two days) to 80% strength, and I'll have to go back on tuesday to get my blood tested and make sure the counts don't drop too low after getting disconnected.
If they are low, well...it's more Neuprogen for me...but I DON'T CAAAARRREEEE!!! Cuz it's my last ooonnnneeee!!!
(heh, note the joy in all my exaggerated words)
Anywho, I thought maybe I'd share some pics with you guys. You know, a little taste of my life.
First up, the needle jammed in my port and all taped up:
(purty, ain't it? it's under the little yellow butterfly needle)
And here, my lovely chemo-ipod...and no, it doesn't hold nearly as many mp3's as my regular ipod:
(hehehehe, don't you just LOVE the thrilled expression on my face? I <3 chemo so much.)Soooo, tomorrow (saturday) I should be going in to get disconnected from my ipod. I shall update upon that event happening.
wheeee!
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ReplyDeleteI TOO HAVE TOO LOW OF WBC COUNTS AND AM AFRAID TO DO THE NEUPROGEN SHOTS AS WE ARE TOLD THAT IT CAN CAUSE LEUKEMIA. WHO WANTS MORE PROBLEMS AND LEUKEMIA IS NOT A GREAT THING TO HAVE!!! SO THE PROBLEM CONTINUES SINCE THEY CANNOT CONTINUE MY RADIATION OR DO MY NEXT CHEMO WITH SO LOW OF WBC...ORIGINALLY MY PROGNOSIS WAS GOOD WITH STAGE 2 BUT AFTER TWO WEEKS OF EXTREME SIDE EFFECTS FROM CHEMO AND HAIR FALLING OUT MORE ISSUES ARE NOT WANTED. ANY ELSE HAD NEUPROGEN SHOTS FOR THIS.??
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