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I'm home again from the hospital. Greg and Kelli are in the kitchen laying out the nibblies for the open house we're having later today and I'm here in my chair in the living room trying to drink as much water as possible so that my creatinine (or however you spell it) levels will be low enough for me to have my scheduled chemo treatment tomorrow. The doctors are convinced that the Taxol they gave me is responsible for wiping out my platelets (they are 140,000 currently but when I went into the hosital on Sunday night they wereat 15,000) At one point they were down at 7,000 and the doctor started speculating that the cancer was in my bone marrow. They did a bone scan which was interesting but it didn't reveal anything. And now that my blood has recovered they aren't talking about my bone marrow any more and their going ahead with chemo. They are going to take me off the Taxol completely, that's the one that made me break out in itchy hives the last time, in the hopes that I won't suffer too many side effects. The nausea and vomiting have started as well. It just hit me out of the blue one evening in the hospital and I've been throwing up a little ever since then.
My visit with feste didn't go exactly as planned but because he is such a wonderful guy we managed to make the best of things.I hope it won't be long before I'm able to visit with him for real in a non-hospital environment.
Getting tired now, need a nap before everyone starts to arrive. It looks like Gary and Sam will both be here, haven't heard from the Larsens yet but there's still time.
My visit with feste didn't go exactly as planned but because he is such a wonderful guy we managed to make the best of things.I hope it won't be long before I'm able to visit with him for real in a non-hospital environment.
Getting tired now, need a nap before everyone starts to arrive. It looks like Gary and Sam will both be here, haven't heard from the Larsens yet but there's still time.