I saw my doctor this morning to discuss my blood clots. He had to decide whether I stay on injections or switch to oral blood thinners. Because I still have some swelling in my arm and can still feel the pressure/pain caused by the blood clots, he decided I should stay on the injections. Getting them by injection guarantees I'm receiving the appropriate level of blood thinner. The other factor for cycle 3 is that the drug Cisplatn causes blood clots, so I will remain on blood thinner injections for the next 4-6 weeks.
I was also feeling pretty crappy when I saw my doctor this morning (woozy and nauseous) so he had me head up to the chemo room for a steroid and fluid. He also ordered blood work and said he would catch up to me before I went home. When he did, he didn't have great news. Apparently my platelets are low, right at the bare minimum where it's safe to give blood thinners. Platelets cause your blood to clot and if you don't have any of those and your on blood thinners it's dangerous. If I started bleeding for some reason, it wouldn't stop. And once again my white cell count is way down and my neutraphils are almost non-existent. Again this is expected, it just means I'm wide open to infection until they bounce back. The neopogen shots that I received should speed that up. The biggest concern right now is the platelets, so I will get blood work done every 2 days until they're back to normal. And of course if I spike a temperature of 38 degrees it's straight to the emergency room.
So this week is blood work on Wednesday, chemo on Thursday, blood work on Friday and a chest CT somewhere in there as well. My doctor wants to see if the Bleomycin has caused any lung damage. I feel like it has but who knows.
Also this week in Winnipeg is a Pearl Jam Concert which I had hoped to Rock Out. Adrienne bought me tickets for my birthday before we knew I would have to do chemo. Even if I was feeling up to going I couldn't because the the chemo drugs make me something like 11 times more susceptible to hearing damage caused by things like concerts. So if anyone is looking for tickets:
I have 2 tickets in section 217 at the MTS Centre for the show this Saturday Sept 17th. I'm selling them at face value which I think was $165 for the pair. The seats are pretty good, the first section in front of the stage on the side in the second level. Let me know if you're interested. My email is pcareen@gmail.com I'm probably going to throw them up on Kijiji tomorrow.
That's it for now.
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