After feeling more tired than I have ever been in my life on Saturday and Sunday (I seriously wanted a bench to take a rest at the grocery store on Sunday...WTF!), I'm feeling a lot more perky the last day or two. That's probably because I rebounded better than ever this time. They drew blood when I went in for Herceptin this week (they usually don't, not sure why they did this time, but...). I continue to be anemic, but no worse than previously (thank you beef broth!). Only one of my liver enzymes is elevated and even that one isn't super high. This is really impressive for being one week out from chemo. As a comparison; a week after my first round of chemo, my liver enzymes were SKY HIGH. The interesting thing about my blood work is that my sodium was pretty low. I've been craving all things salty so I guess I shouldn't be surprised. I've been instructed to measure out a teaspoon of salt and make sure to sprinkle it on my food over the course of the day. This really isn't much of a problem at the moment because my tastebuds are pretty dull anyway.
After a little back and forth, it looks like I have a work schedule for next year that will make it so I won't miss class time for infusions. No matter how the scans go I can count on having Herceptin infusions for as long as it keeps working for me. My school has a funky seven day rotating block schedule so getting a schedule with some day to day predictability is a huge deal! I'm feeling pretty lucky that it was something that could be accommodated, yippee!!
Well, school is almost over and with all my weeks off for chemo I have to say I'm not quite as burnt out as normal. In fact I'm almost a little nervous about not working. Working has been a really good thing for me through all this crap. Spending time in a room with 25-30 teens means you have no time to think about your own shit. I won't miss getting up at 6am every morning though! That's getting harder and harder!!
{ 0 komentar... read them below or add one }
Posting Komentar