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[Guest guest]

I don't know if this is the proper proceedure for

entering a message. I had a episode that I had not

experienced before and thought I'd pass on what I

learned in case there is somebody that is not aware of

it.

I had my second infusion of chemo for recurring

metastatic colon cancer on Sep 6. On the seventh I

felt real good and even made a little drive to town to

run errands. On the eighth, however I was cold and

clammy and a bit shakey. I laid around all day and

did nothing. I got nauseaus and threw up once so I

started taking compozine to fight the nausea. When I

went to bed that night I was ok. After breakfast on

the 9th I started feeling really bad, cold clammy and

shakey. I was nauseas but I did not throw up. I got

so bad that I was breathing rapidly and could not talk

comfortably. I called the back office nurse but I

couldn't talk well enough to explain the situation, so

I was lucky that my wife was here to help with the

coversation. She was told to get me warm and start

feeding me liquids of any kind. She drew a hot bath

and put me in it. Just that made me feel much better

and stopped the shaking and rapid breathing. I started

drinking fluids a sip at a time. Within one hour I

was much better and in two hours I was just fine.

The reason I had gotten dehidrated was that it hurt to

swallow plain water. It was much easier to swallow

things like chicken soup but I could also force the

water down once I realized that it was necessary. The

fluid is necessary to flush those chemicals through

the system. Now I now what to do when I start

shaking.

Maybe this will help someone else.

Len