Another rescheduled day. Getting to be a habit now. This one was my fault though so I can't complain.
Gemcitibane today and again I had the acid pain up my arm which can only be described as excruciating. I only had to weather this pain for about forty five minutes as opposed to the three hours or so on the 25th.On the plus side I got my AFP results from the end of cycle 2 and the bugga's have dropped to fifteen. Which is a bonus really. Cycle 3, this cycle is not yet reported and theoretically we should have seen the AFP drop to less than 8 which is the Christie Hospital normal for this tumour marker.
I go into cycle 4 this week, starting the sixteenth and ending the twenty third with potentially a disease in remission and using this cycle to polish things off. Bargain!
I will update this blog on a regular basis as this is much to the history of this disease that I want to get out of my head. Suffice to say, there are one or two Doctors who may want to take legal action against me when I have finished commenting on their skills as physicians here.
Wednesday, 14 May 2008
April 25th:cycle 3, day 1
Due to what can only be described as 'administrative issues' my proper sequence of chemo days was fudged beyond belief and I was delayed until the 25th for my 3rd cycle of chemo. Since then I have been wrapped around a greasy ball of pain in my gut and haven't had the inclination to update this blog.
This was a combined oxalyplatin/gemcitibane day again and I encountered one of the more unpleasant side effects of the infusion process. I had been warned that there could be some vein pain from these infusions, but nothing had prepared me for how severe they could be. From the first minute of the oxalyplatin infusion I felt like someone was feeding me acid through the drip. This got worse with the gemcitibane element of the infusion and peaked with the saline flush. Apparently, the solution is to apply a hot compress pack to the area, which was done and offered virtually no relief. So, all in all, this was not a good day for me.
This was a combined oxalyplatin/gemcitibane day again and I encountered one of the more unpleasant side effects of the infusion process. I had been warned that there could be some vein pain from these infusions, but nothing had prepared me for how severe they could be. From the first minute of the oxalyplatin infusion I felt like someone was feeding me acid through the drip. This got worse with the gemcitibane element of the infusion and peaked with the saline flush. Apparently, the solution is to apply a hot compress pack to the area, which was done and offered virtually no relief. So, all in all, this was not a good day for me.
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