Frustrated!!!!!!
Ok so tomorrow I'm due to have my 2nd AC chemo since my last one got cancelled due to 0 neutrophils. So I go today to the place that the hospital had organised for me to have my blood tests done thr...
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Hey! Its all these things that you iron out along the way which help for the next treatment, but of course no less frustrating. I have had the same with a Hickman line. The best place is to go to the Chemo ward and get the blood taken there. I live 1.5hours from where I had chemo and i ended up going to the ward for bloods on the day of chemo (send to hospitals pathology as urgent) then i saw my oncologist and to the ward for chemo after.
Also i would recommend asking for the pegfilgrastin injection (into belly 24 hrs after chemo), you should qualify as this is your second round and you were neutropaenic previously. It basically boosts your neutrofill count reducing infection risk and... Wasted trips to hospital.
Hope this helps, all the best for today!!