biggusdickusgb:
dave you must be clairvoyant, i got a parcel today from hong kong.
it was something ordered for amandas son and i’d forgot all about it.
apparently i have my last dose of my superdrug tomorrow, so i should find out whats happening from my consultant tomorrow.
I only wish I were clairvoyant biggus. I’d have certainly planned things differently if I’d known earlier what was to come my way.
Anyway, good luck for tomorrow and you can bet there’ll be another delivery stemming from that visit. Every time I go for any kind of procedure, it means another check-up in a few weeks time. Now I’ve got two surgeons on the go, so I’ll need a secretary to handle the extra mail deliveries.
you could be one dave, its reckoned a clairvoyant can see all but there own destiny.
i’ve been to the hospital today and they seem happy that whatever was in my lungs has gone.
they’ve took me off my superdrug and back onto my twice a day tablets
fingers crossed now i can stay out until wednesday when i have to report in to see my consultant, hopefully have a marrow sample taken and to be told when my next stage of chemo is starting.
biggusdickusgb:
you could be one dave, its reckoned a clairvoyant can see all but there own destiny.
By that reckoning, you’re spot-on.
biggusdickusgb:
i’ve been to the hospital today and they seem happy that whatever was in my lungs has gone.
they’ve took me off my superdrug and back onto my twice a day tablets
fingers crossed now i can stay out until wednesday when i have to report in to see my consultant, hopefully have a marrow sample taken and to be told when my next stage of chemo is starting.
Yes biggus, those look like pretty good signs to me.
Now that Lady Luck has smiled upon you, I think she’d probably like you to take it nice and steady mate.
Good luck for Wednesday.
clear the tracks, i can see the light at the end of the tunnel and i’m going for it.
been to see my consultant today and there is still no trace of leukemia in me and i’m in full remission so i’m back in on monday for my third course of chemo and that will be it, i won’t need the 4th course.
i’ll get this course done over 5 days and then i’ll have 3 to 4 weeks until i’m not neutrapenic and then its try to get back to some kind of normal life and start counting down the 5 years i’ve got to be clear before i know its not coming back
and for an extra bonus i got the result of my 2nd CT scan and for the 2nd time the experts are scratching their heads because my lungs are still repairing themselves so you never know i might get up from 25% to 50% capacity and make my enforced retirement a little better to accept.
here we go again, one of these days i’ll go to the hospital and come back and report all went well, no problems.
went in last monday, reported to the clinic because the ward was full,
i’m informed i’m missing my 3rd course and going straight to the 4th course if that makes sense.
the 4th course is a lot stronger dosage(10x) than course 1,2&3, its the blasting of the leukemia to finish it off.
start the 1st session and within 30 mins of the 4 hours it takes i’m dead to the world, got woke up with 30 mins to go and thought nothing of it.
off up to the ward, settle in and wait for the 2nd session(there has to be 8 hours between sessions) have the 2nd session finishing about 03.30 tuesday morning.
woke up for breakfast at 08.00 and discover i’m covered in a rash, not too much of a problem because i had that on my last course of chemo.
through the day the rash gets worse and i start to swell up, hands, arms, legs, feet, etc, etc getting gradually worse until later that night i start overheating, once i’d gone past 38c they put me on a paracetamol drip to cool me down, i had a chest x-ray, then a saline drip to keep my fluid levels up, this continued all through the night until i stabilised at 37.5c.
next morning wednesday i had the 3rd session and slept the whole day on and off, having the saline drip all the time because i was sleeping so much, at 23.00 i started the 4th session and was finished by 03.30 on thursday morning, this is when everything went into overdrive.
within an hour my temp had shot up to 40.5, the doc was called and he was with me most of the night, i had another chest x-ray, an ECG because my heart started racing and was attached to 3 drips all night long, 1 paracetamol to cool me, 1 antibiotic and saline to stop me dehydrating, it took nearly 3 hours to start cooling my temp again and i had this all through thursday and into friday about 4 am before i came down to below 36.9.
on friday morning my consultant came round and explained my heart wouldn’t take the 2 friday sessions, but i had to finish the course
then came the surprise, i had to have steroids with the last 2 sessions as thats the only way my body could cope.
she told me she thought i’d be 100% safe and flashed her pearly whites at me, so 6 months after they nearly killed me i’m having steroids pumped in me again, 30 mins later i’m having my chemo and sat there with no side effects reading a book all the way through.
23.30 i start my 6th and final session again with no side effects finishing at 04.00 saturday and off to sleep.
saturday morning up at 08.30 for breakfast and ate my first food since tuesday morning.
kept in for checks on saturday into sunday and then luckily it was one of my doctors thats on call over the weekend, he says i’m ok and home i come.
stupid thing about all this is that i was allergic to the chemo all along, the 1st course it wasn’t noticed because i was on a high dose of steroids for my leg wound, the 2nd course rash was put down to a anti sickness drug because i hadn’t shown any signs during the 1st course.
what nearly killed me in september helped me on this course, you couldn’t make it up could you
My word its been quite a saga How are you feeling now? Is it a case of, “fingers crossed” that now you recover and get stronger, just going to the hospital for check ups?
I shall keep you in my thoughts and prayers until you have all your strength back.
yes ladytrucker, i have to go in every other day day for checks until i’m no longer neutrapenic (no resistance because i’ve got no white cells)
once my blood starts regenerating and my levels come up to normal they’ll do a biopsy and if thats ok i’ll be reporting in once a week at first, then once a month, then three months, then six months until the five years is up.
if it gets to five years, its not coming back.
some times when I read your posts I’d like to put a comment, but I never know what to say. They aren’t making it easy for you are they . Good luck for the future I sincerly hope it gets easier.
thanks knight, i think i’m possibly over the worst of it now.
i’ve never had chemo and managed to keep my temps down and not have to go back in so hopefully this is the one
after this next 3 weeks all i’ve got to do is count 60 months, that can’t be too hard, can it?
i’m pleased to announce my constant companion since september has buggered off and left me.
as of today i’m officially cancer free and on my five year countdown to it never coming back
thanks to all for your support, its been fantastic and i’m sure it’s helped me recover faster than i should knowing everyone was urging me on
