did chemo today

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Did # 3 chemo today. Dosage was reduced to 3.4 of the regular

dosage because of the loss of vision, the low white blood count and

the thrush and canker sores.

Doing ok tonight, By tomorrow evening I will probably be feeling much worse.

I had fluid removed from my pleural cavity earlier this week, it is

slowing down tremendously. It was 19 days this time. There is not

as much fluid as before. I hope to never have to do it again.

My sister arrived from Hawaii, drove me home from chemo, said I

looked a bit peaked. I probably did.

It went well, no reaction because we pre-empted the reaction by doing

the treatment for the reaction prior to the treatment (half of it)

and then half way through we did the other treatment for the reaction

(before it happened), so we kept my body from reacting. Much better

than dealing with the reaction after the fact.

I had my writsts and ankles wrapped in ice packs and a cold cap on my

head. My sister is going to sew up a cold cap that is more effective

and easier to deal with before my next treatment. Collie helped me

put all this stuff on and keep it there. She met the social worler

there. We are going to take a class together there.

So, barring the RSD on my foot, all is going as well as it can

be. The next week to 10 days I will be fighting weakness, fatigue,

nausea, constipation, and inability to eat as well as having to eat

very soft foots to keep the mouth sores from happening. Nothing

acid. I can sometimes get down some of my vitamins, sometimes

not. I am working harder to get more of them down more often. We

are working on getting regular good protein in my diet.

I hope to find out more about the plan for the RSD very soon, have

not heard anything.

Hope everyone is doing well. It has been hard for me to keep up with

everything that is happening.

Love,

Lynda