14th Day of Chemo

Well today was my 14th treatment of chemo and it wasn't that bad. I didn't throw up, and just been tired all day. With a massive headache but I can't take anything for that. That's because my white blood cell counts is once again really low. So now I have to monitor my temperature and stay at home away from everyone. I can't wait until all of this is over. But good news is that I'm 2/3rds the way done with this whole process. Woo! Also one of my oldest friends had a baby today and became a father. So congrades to them!

Week 6 Tuesday

I know I haven't posted anything in a few days. But nothing has really been happening. I have been feeling good and been resting at home. Though today I went to a ears, nose, and throat doctor to make sure the ringing in my ears hasn't caused hearing lost. Good news is that I am still hearing within the normal hearing range. Kind of bad news is that because of one of the chemo drugs I could have a permanent ringing in my ears. But its only a possibility and even if it isn't a permanent thing it can still effect me over a year later. Other then that I have my next chemo session tomorrow. Then next week its my last week long session of chemo. So I can't wait to have this all behind me. But anyways until tomorrow, goodnight people of the interwebs.

Week 5 Saturday

Hey everyone, first off sorry for not posting anything yesterday. Nothing really happened and by the time I realized I need to write a post I was to tired to. But today was a really good day. Woke up feeling a little weird but by lunch I was feeling basically normal. So I decided to come up to Marietta and visit with some friends. It was good because I got hang out with one of fraternity brothers that is moving back to Canada. We went shooting and that was fun until one of the employees came to talk to us in the range. Apparently there was a rule in the rifle part of the range that you have to wait a full 2 seconds between firing each round. I was shooting my friends A.R. and didn't know this so I just fired 3 rounds off without thinking. So when this guy came in he started telling me that I can't do that which is fine. But what wasn't fine is that he thought I was some guy who had been coming in and shooting for the past several weeks that has been ignoring that rule. And he started having a go at me about coming in last week and getting warned then too. When I said that I had never been shooting at that range before he just ignored me and repeated himself. So I asked him how I could have been here last week when I was miles away sitting in a chemo room, then reiterated the fact that I had never shot there before. At this point he still didn't believe me which pissed me off to no end. He finally realized after I explained to him again that there was no way I could have been coming in over and over to shot there that I was telling the truth. But still no apology he just said that if I broke the rule again that I would never be allowed in the store again and stormed off.

But the day did end on a good note. I got to go to my fraternity brothers party and see a lot of my friends there. It was a good time and I was able to catch up with a lot of people. It was fun.

13th Day of Chemo and the Week 5 Thursday

Yesterday was my 13th treatment of chemo and it wasn't the best but not the worst either. It started off alright but ended badly. In the morning I went to chemo and it was the busiest I had ever seen them. When the nurses finally was able to get to me it took 30 minutes to take blood. They couldn't take it from my port and ended up having to stick me instead. Which wasn't the worst part of the whole trip. The worst part was at the end of my visit when they did the final flush it made me throw up. It was horrid, but on the bright side I felt better afterwards. That afternoon after we got back, I was feeling alright just extremely tired. Around dinner time I started feeling bad and that feeling kept getting worse as time went on. By the time I went to bed I was feeling horrid and I ended up throwing up again just before going to sleep.

Today I woke up still feeling fairly bad. But as the day went out I started feeling better and better. I just hope it lasts.

Week 5 Tuesday

Today has been a fairly good day. It started off though going to the doctors to get my throat checked out. I have been feeling like there is something in the back of my throat and today that feeling has been making me gag. Just randomly too, I will be feeling just fine but then out of the blue it feels like I will be gagging on something. Then it will just stop and I will feel fine. So I got it checked out and found out that I have thrush again. But this time its spread down my throat before it was realized. Good news is that I was already prescribed the mouthwash to fix it all. Just takes times.

Anyways, tomorrow I go back in so I can receive more chemo. Woo chemo! I'm going to be receiving bleomycin which hasn't had to many side effects on me. Which I can't be happy enough about.

Week 5 Monday

Well today has been a fairly decent one. I was able to eat my lunch and dinner without any of it coming back up. Which is always good in my book. But there is some bad news of today. All day long I have had this feeling in my throat like something was sitting there. So I had my mom look down my throat after dinner. She saw that I had some sores going down into my throat. We called it into the doctors office and now I have to go in tomorrow morning so they can look at it. So that is all I have for today, I will let you know what the doc says tomorrow about my throat.

12th Day of Chemo and the Sunday After

Well yesterday (Saturday 6/1) was by far the worst day of chemotherapy I have had. Instead of the doctors office where I normally have chemo, I had to go to the hospital. (Because it was Saturday). That morning I already wasn't feeling the greatest and when we where there it took them forever to get the treatment ready. Also the nurse that was taking care of me didn't like to be patient and listen to us. So when they did my first flush I threw up because she wouldn't let me get ready for it. After a little bit I tried eating and that just ended in me actually throwing up. Which was the first time that has happened while I have been receiving the chemo. So the nurses had to call the doctor to get me more nausea meds, but when she came to give me the nausea meds she didn't listen to us once again. So in the processes of giving me the anti-nausea meds I nearly threw up again. But luckily enough when we got home I started to feel better, though I was hardly able to really eat anything. My uncle came over to stay the night also and he brought steak with him! Which I was actually able to keep down! It was the best part of the day.

Then today I woke up feeling alright, but as the day wore on I started feeling worse and worse. I threw up about mid afternoon. It wasn't pleasant but after that I was able to keep some food down. Once that happened I started feeling a lot better. By dinner I was even able to eat a whole meal and not feel nausea afterwards!

Now I hope that this keeps up until tomorrow. If it does I am hoping to be able to eat multiple meals without throwing up and feel normal afterwards!