That’s the name of the medicine I’m getting the day after each chemo to boost my white blood cell count. It is a brief shot in the arm that I have to drive to Albany and back in order to get. Dr. C. the oncologist says that it is basically prophylactic–it eliminates the risk of […]
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saturday through wednesday (more than you wanted to know)
Saturday I went to Pennsylvania for the CABC board meeting, which was all day Sunday. Spee drove and spent Sunday visiting Lucas at Westtown. I felt okay if queasy on Saturday, but by Saturday night I felt bad and went to bed early in the hotel room I was sharing with another board member (who […]
end of another day
Still queasy, no worse, no better, no effect from the Zofran. I wasn’t worried about it getting worse today, though, so that was nice. Still feeling flu-ish in my head. Ran out of energy at 3 PM today and went home to bed instead of continuing to help Paul tile the backsplash in the farmhouse […]
end of day 3
Today I was queasy, pretty much all day, but never so much that I was worried about throwing up. A Zofran at 9 AM had no effect, acupuncture at 1 PM didn’t seem to do much noticeable right away anyway, ginger beer and popcorn to fill my empty stomach helped a bit, the remedy from […]
me
Yesterday morning. My hair has been cut much shorter than usual (1/2″ in front, at its longest) but you really can’t tell much difference! I’ll have to buzz it to 1/4″ next week, so as to really look startling.
chemo thoughts
Aloxi, Tagamet, Taxotere, Cytoxan–ATTaC! Hmmm. Aloxi, Tagamet, Taxotere, Cytoxan, Heparin–ATTaCH. Aloxi is an anti-emetic, tagamet is to settle my stomach some other way (anti-reflux…it’s an ulcer med?), Taxotere is the new chemo agent, Cytoxan is the old chemo agent, Heparin is to keep my port catheter from clotting up in between uses. And there’s the […]
chemo #1
It went well–efficient, friendly, we liked the nurse, got to sit on the quiet side of the infusion room, and everything went fine with the various drugs. I got a headache from the Cytoxan, but it only lasted an hour or so and wasn’t very bad. Gave my allergic oncologist advice about how best to […]
murmurs?
Last September and October, I found myself crying and crying over stories of Hurricane Katrina–the awful ones, the wistful ones, the happy-ending ones. Of course this was only in the car because One, we only listen to the radio in the car and Two, the car makes a nice private place to cry. This continued […]
fashion statement
A few weeks ago I received a nice big plain red bandanna in the mail from a friend. I also got a lavender one and in the package were two black bandannas with skulls and crossbones on them. (I’m assuming those are for the boys.) We were in the car. I tied the red one […]
$745.25
I am looking at the receipt for 20 tablets of Zofran, an anti-nausea medication that didn’t work very well for me (against the nausea-inducing Adriamycin) in 1995. That’s, what, $37 per tablet? Nothing much lately has suceeded in making me feel more sick than that $745.25. Who takes medicine that costs that much money? Only […]