Today I went and got fluids. I was dehydrated when I woke up. Angela is a blessing and took me today and got to experience my chemo room and met my doctor and nurse.
They gave me magnesium and potassium and said if this makes me feel better then come get fluids more often! This is all about trial with everyone and how chemo drugs react for everyone is different.
My doctor said to start taking prilosec daily to keep from having the heartburn. He said he thinks my legs hurting could be a side effect from the neulasta shot that occurred after chemo , the shot in my arm that makes white blood cells.
He will monitor my bloodwork to see if he can use a different drug that is a daily white cell enhancer for next round instead of the 10 day shot.
He did say on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the highest chemo intake, he gave me a dose of 9 last Tuesday. And everyone said I looked better than they expected!
So I am now learning that the Nadir point won't actually occur until closer to my next chemo round because of the 10 day boost from neulasta shot.
Which means it will be hard to actually figure out my Nadir point.
My white cell count today was 20.9
My white cell count 1 week ago day of chemo was 14.5
This shows the neulasta is doing its job to keep my cell count high.
BP was good 108/82
98.1 temp
And weight exactly the same as last week.
My cousin Nancy calls chemotherapy the most imperfect perfect scenario.
Thank you to Angela for taking me to get the help I needed today! We enjoyed cheese steak sandwiches and ice tea after we left! It tasted so good! ;)
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