Day 21 after chemo
Day 21 after chemo, Thurs 4th Feb, the last day before the next dose of chemo tomorrow. I am on the steroid tabs to help with side affects and to help the chemo drugs infuse and work better.
I saw the physiotherapist who measured my arm and checked the cording and muscular seizing and said I have lymphodema but mostly in the forearm where its been sore. They are going to make up compression sleeve for my whole arm. Take your time guys; in this heat it will take some convincing to wear it.
I also got to meet my new permanent oncology Dr Hayden Christie who is fantastic. Just the right blend of dry humour and medical expertise I like. He said tomorrow I will be sent home with a nearly $3,000 injection to administer just under the skin on Saturday. It is to bring up my white blood cell count as apparently the low nadir blood test on day 10 said I had absolutely no disease resistance whatsoever, not even 0.2 or 0.8. Lucky he said it’s not winter or I would have for sure caught something going but this time I didn’t yay!
He read through my written down side affects and said he would write a script to combat the heavy chest and throat swelling side affect as it was uncomfortable and I really didn’t want to eat much with reflux pressure in my sternum. When I mentioned the skin cancers all going haywire he cleverly said all part of the service, two for one killing of skin cancers with chemo no extra charge lol.
