It’s the month for changes and new stuff at chemo. Some of the changes, like labs and blood work, are easy. The trip to the hospital for the ultrasound was inconvenient but turned out well in the end. This time they threw me a curve. New-to-me treatments have been added to the schedule. Instead of two more rounds of treatments I will have four or perhaps six. That’s why I’m having the blood work and labs every visit. However, this means that I’m still going to be finished around my original finish date because my break between treatments was reduced from 14 days to seven when the first new drug was added. The new schedule means I’ll have chemo through June as originally scheduled. I’m not going to finish early after all.
I was really looking forward to finishing “early” but it’s just not to be.
Other than that bit of disappointing but not scary news, things are going as expected. My legs are still puffy and swollen. That’s one of the expected side effects of the medications. I’m supposed to stay off my feet as much as possible and keep them up. I’m also even more cantankerous and grumpy than usual because of the massive amounts of steroids I’m taking. That’s supposed to be off-set by some other meds. Well, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. I’ll leave that to others to tell me. Beware of doped up curmudgeon. You have been warned. Maybe I can go back to napping all the time.
I hope this finds you and yours well and happy. We’re also having dodgy weather here in Louisville so there are constant alarums of snow on the way and the sky is gloomy. Personally, I prefer the dim twilight over the searing glare of noon but that’s part of the oddness not caused by the medications. The cold and bad roads, however, I could do without. I guess all of us are looking forward to the end of this winter for one reason or another.
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