We will start this post with a note to self: from here on out, don’t speak of things going so well, it seems to become an omen.
Ok, now with that done and as you are sitting there going, oh, no, now what happened, here is the rest of the story:
As I mentioned in the last post, I caught a cold, two days after receiving chemo #6. It moved rapidly into my lungs and has been causing its own share of havoc. Then on Sunday, I started becoming much sicker and by yesterday, Wednesday, I had become quite weak and in an almost disorientated state. I called my oncologist and they arranged for me to go to urgent care fifteen miles from here to get tested and find out what the problem is.
My daughter called into work and then took me over there. Good thing I went. It turns out I now have a superinfection. The end result of either being on antibiotics since July 18th because of my teeth, or the chemo, Taxol, or a combination of both. So now I am off the antibiotics for my teeth and am being put on another antibiotic to get rid of the superinfection.
Needless to say, chemo #7, originally scheduled for this upcoming Monday is now canceled until further notice from my oncologist. I will have labs and my appointment with her on Monday and we will discuss at that time what the future holds from here. And as far as my teeth…. Heaven only knows what is going to happen.
Thursday, October 27, 2005
Time Out
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Oh NO....
Take care of yourself my dear girl... You must feel awful...Wrap up warm, stay in bed and rest...rest...and rest...
I wish I was there to help look after you but thinking of you instead..
Minerva
I'm sorry. get lots of rest and fluids and get better soon!
I read your blog after you visited mine and I must say it was eerily familiar. I have spoken with someone who has been through this in the past, but to read the words of someone going through this at the same time as me (my second to last chemo is scheduled for tomorrow, the same day yours was before it was postponed) is somehow more real to me. I can so relate to your past post about starting your blog with a positive attitude and struggling to keep that when everything becomes so hard. I started the same way, with humor in my posts, but lately I just haven't had the energy for humor. You just can't be positive all the time. Especially when you are feeling that bone-deep pain or are so fatigued you can't move. I hope you will email me at dawnb@cp-tel.net. I would like to hear from you. I'm scheduled to have radiation after the chemo and would like to know where you found information that helped you make your decision on that.
Take care!
Dawn
Hoping you're feeling better since this post...thanks for your note on my blog. I'll be back! (But not in an Arnold Schwarzenegger way...)
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