I am SOOOO ready for tomorrow!
It is my LAST chemo (hopefully for forever!!!!!!!!). It is number six out of six and I am excited beyond words! I am ready to move on...
My biggest concern about tomorrow is that my platelet count will be too low. The count could only drop 4 points before we need to think about plan B ...a blood transfusion or wait a week or more (neither one sounds good to me!). My counts have dropped about 15-20 points between the last two chemos so I'm keeping my fingers and toes crossed!!! Four points isn't much to go on.
Speaking of toes...because of my weakened immune system, I have been gotten two or three infections of one kind or another. YUCK! One of my big toes has an infection so I'm sure that infection will mess with my blood work numbers.
Tomorrow I meet with my oncologist, Dr. Terstriep, for the last time until November or December. We have lots to discuss. My list of questions keeps growing. Some of the questions I think I know the answers to because of all my reading but I want to know "her take" on them too. I will be meeting with her every three months for the next two years.
Tomorrow, we will lay out the rest of my "venture" since my chemo will be done! I believe I will get 4-6 weeks off to recuperate from chemo and then radiation will begin. Radiation is EVERY DAY except Saturday and Sunday. I will let you know more details tomorrow when my appointment is done.
It is 11:15pm. I had to take two steroid pills today because steroids decrease chemo side effects. Steroids make me not sleepy so tonight will be a long one as will the next two nights because I get steroids for the next two days. I do appreciate their ability to decrease side effects. I do not like the sleeplessness for the next three nights though. Oh well! I only have 54 pages left to read of a good book so that will be my plan for tonight. I'll have to plan on getting through a couple magazines the other two nights!!!
Keep posted for tomorrow's update... :-)
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