Bryan had his 2nd treatment this week. The side effects we much more intensified. This treatment was accompanied by the nausea the first night and lasted though the weekend. The hot and cold sensitivity was greatly intensified. His love for ice has disappeared. Room temperature is the new way to drink anything. He forgot and tried a glass of lemonade with ice in and it only took one drink before he asked the waiter to bring him a drink with out ice and asked him to warm it up a little in the microwave. Friday morning when it snowed, he had to have gloves on to be able to touch the steering wheel. By Friday night he was so exhausted he spent the evening and all day Saturday on the couch. He is feeling a little better today. He went to church and sang with the choir. He says the choir is therapy. At lease mentally I think it is.
His platelets dropped from 447,000 the week before the 2nd surgery, to 297,000 the week we started the 1st treatment. Then they dropped to 287,000 the week in between treatments. The day he started the 2nd treatment they were 209,000. I hope they level off some. I know that is still in the normal range, but that is a big drop in my eyes.
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6 years ago
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The countdown...the good side of every treatment I tell myself is that it's one more down. Always fun to watch counts drop. Seems Gracie's are ever changing. Her platelets were 17,000 when she was admitted and they don't usually transfuse children til 10,000 if that makes you feel any better. She has been near 450,000 for long periods of time and dropped to the 200,000's and such. Of course it's a side effect of the chemo as you know it's knocking out rapidly dividing cells...including the platelets. Hard to watch at times as you it's a visual perception of what's being done to their bodies. Poor Bryan. Does he have some good meds for the nausea? We kept on the zofran and that has helped Gracie a lot with the nausea when she needed it. Time seems to drag with cancer. You guys are an inspiration to us.
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