All too soon it was back in for the 3rd and final dose of IVE which means being hooked up to a drip from Wednesday to Sunday. Just a case of sitting it out really - no sickness a bit of nausea at first. It’s just a slog really because they have to test your urine for blood all the time and you’re woken up for observations and changing bags over during the night. By the end of the week I’m just really tired. So nothing to whinge about at all really, haha. I was doubly pleased that they’d got it all in through my Hickman Line - even though there was no real reason for it not to go in J . The bad news was that on the Friday (whilst chemo still being administered), doc said neutrophils had already started dropping and I probably wouldn’t be allowed home. Now I’ve been more in than out of hospital since beginning of September and I really look forward to getting home and seeing everyone. I’ve also decided to hate the food, haha. Breakfast is fine. Dinner is usually OK but the lunches are pretty dire. Anyway I resigned myself to that within a couple of minutes and was OK. Good news was that on Sunday my blood had risen so I could go home til Tuesday. Went back and blood test showed they’d risen again so I could go home til Thursday. Result! Thursday they’d crashed as expected so I was admitted and here I am. So it’s a case of sitting it out and hoping that I don’t get an infection. There’s some ominous-sounding sniffing going on outside the room from the staff, haha. The nurses all had their swine-flu jabs the other day so all were working with sore, red arms. Haemoglobin had dropped a couple of days ago so more blood needed. They can only leave a bag hooked up for 4 hours and only half of it had made it’s way in so I had another bag yesterday which all transfused. This just ’happens sometimes’ apparently. My line is getting stingy with giving blood in the mornings so I’m still having it taken peripherally some days. Trouble is my veins are bored now and not co-operating - 3rd time lucky again today. Neutrophils are 0.1 today so haven’t quite bottomed out. Platelets are down to 80 as expected. Haemoglobin back up tho so transfusion worked. I think I might be meeting the radiotherapy doc this week to talk about that - depends on the scan in a couple of weeks but I think we’re all expecting that to be the next step. Hopefully it’s reduced enough. All very exciting eh?!? Off for a sleep (I hope) - stayed up way too late last night even for a Saturday Night J . Love karenx
