Usual routine today. Hickman gave up the blood without a fight this morning so that was a good start. Neutrophils are zero so today or tomorrow will be the bottom out days before things start to rise. Platelets down to 40 which means the daily Clexane injections (blood thinner) have been stopped so that’s another little bonus. Feel good today. Spent a nice afternoon digging out you tube stuff to pass on to the boys…
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…
Hi All, Hope you’ll forgive me, I need to get the gist of this down for future reference… Well in the last blog, I was just going back in for ‘observation’ whilst neutropenic. Straightforward really - a few antibiotics for an unknown infection and my first blood transfusion because haemoglobin was low one day - if anyone knows any B positive types get them to drop a pint or two off in the morning.…
Hi guys,
So been hooked up for 2nd round of IVE (Tuesday til Sunday am) - straightforward really - sick once on the last day but shattered from having to get up every couple of hours to give urine sample; after the PE scare, they kept up with a lower dose blood thinner 'just in case'; let me out on sunday afternoon and am going back in an hour. Had a lovely time just being at home, transferring CDs to my giant ipod (laptop…
Tuesday 29th September
Well an hour or so after my last blog, I left a message for the consultant just in case the 4am pain bit hadn't filtered through. He rang straight back and after the usual questions, said he thought it would be a good idea to come in. "Ok,when?" says I "Now" says he - "we need to make sure it's not a pulmonary embolism." "Sh*t" says OH. "I'm …
