Another Day 2

It's almost 9:30am and the doctor team hasn't even begun to round on all of us up here on the 9200 unit. I slept late after being woken up so much in the night with premeds for chemo, then chemo for 2 hrs, then lab draws, weights, more meds, eyedrops, blood pressure checks...well you get the idea. I didn't wake up for good until 8am. Like they say, the hospital really isn't the place to get god rest. I immediately went to the Exercise room to use the Nu-step machine which a recumbent stepper. The treadmill is still broken. The nurses claim that it was fixed but then broke again since my last visit. I will get the chance to walk around for real if they give me a Daypass. I'll walk the home streets if I go to Hillsborough or around campus if I stay here. At the moment, I'm drinking my tea and waiting for the team right now. I have to push fluids so that they won't decide to hook me up to the string bean pole with fluids.

I had the nurse print out my labs from last night. They look better than the day before. My bone marrow must still be in production mode: Hemoglobin 9.8, white cell 4.9 x 10EE9, platelets 186,000. Those are pretty good numbers, even normal except for the anemia.

So far I have felt pretty good. I have a slight funny taste in my mouth and just a touch of stomach queasiness. Nothing bad. But the hotflashes are quite intense. This chemo med gives me those strong hotflashes that soak me from the head down. Then, when they stop, I get pretty chilly. I've taken to wearing a wicking T shirt and having a button down shirt or sweater to wear over it. It helps with temperature control. My hotflashes were going away before I started this treatment. I am not thrilled to have them back. Maybe they will recede quickly once all of this is over. They are annoying.

I'll show another photo of the swamp just as we were entering. It reminds me of one of those Disneyworld rides where you're driven back into the darkness and some cartoon character is going to appear from behind a tree at any moment. But we didn't see anyone except a canoe with a man and woman heading back to the put-in as we ventured out.