Monday, November 2, 2009
My dear friends,
Sorry I haven't updated in a long time. Let me think about where we left off... I believe last time I wrote, we discussed my taking a morphine patch for the pain. That didn't turn out so well. About 18 hours after I slapped it on, I started feeling queasy at work. I decided to leave at home, but on a whim took a plastic garbage bag into the car with me. Good thing, because within a few minutes I had to pull off to the side of the road and barf my guts out. Luckily, Mark works very close and was able to rescue me (yet again!) and take me home. Needless to say, I have changed to pill form, which seems to be working well.
As far as tests go, I had a good heart test. I need to score at least a 50 on my Injection Fraction and I scored between 55 and 60, so the heart is holding its own. My bone scan, however, was 'ambiguous.' It showed 8 to 10 areas of improvement, but 2 new areas of concern. My doctor says she will scan me again in December.
I have not gotten up the courage to get my lung X-ray yet.
Oh, by the way, I had my first blood transfusion. My hemoglobin was very low, so they scheduled me to take 2 units of blood. It revived me right away. I had been tired and weak, because I'm still not sleeping well, but the weakness went away after the transfusion. I felt kind of weird, like "dirty", because I had someone else's blood in me, but I like to think of that person as a kindhearted soul who helped me and the feeling passed. The hemoglobin is dipping again slightly, I feel this is because I'm not sleeping well and it restores when I sleep.
Regarding my pinched nerves, they are still pinched. They're being pretty nasty to me. I have chickened out on two MRIs so now we're talking about a "sedation MRI" where they knock me out, so the claustrophobia doesn't take over. I was quite disappointed with myself for being scared.
That's about it. I continue to go to chemo every Monday. Please continue to pray for me, especially for my left hand, which I have begun to lose the use of.
Love,
Jeanette
Sorry I haven't updated in a long time. Let me think about where we left off... I believe last time I wrote, we discussed my taking a morphine patch for the pain. That didn't turn out so well. About 18 hours after I slapped it on, I started feeling queasy at work. I decided to leave at home, but on a whim took a plastic garbage bag into the car with me. Good thing, because within a few minutes I had to pull off to the side of the road and barf my guts out. Luckily, Mark works very close and was able to rescue me (yet again!) and take me home. Needless to say, I have changed to pill form, which seems to be working well.
As far as tests go, I had a good heart test. I need to score at least a 50 on my Injection Fraction and I scored between 55 and 60, so the heart is holding its own. My bone scan, however, was 'ambiguous.' It showed 8 to 10 areas of improvement, but 2 new areas of concern. My doctor says she will scan me again in December.
I have not gotten up the courage to get my lung X-ray yet.
Oh, by the way, I had my first blood transfusion. My hemoglobin was very low, so they scheduled me to take 2 units of blood. It revived me right away. I had been tired and weak, because I'm still not sleeping well, but the weakness went away after the transfusion. I felt kind of weird, like "dirty", because I had someone else's blood in me, but I like to think of that person as a kindhearted soul who helped me and the feeling passed. The hemoglobin is dipping again slightly, I feel this is because I'm not sleeping well and it restores when I sleep.
Regarding my pinched nerves, they are still pinched. They're being pretty nasty to me. I have chickened out on two MRIs so now we're talking about a "sedation MRI" where they knock me out, so the claustrophobia doesn't take over. I was quite disappointed with myself for being scared.
That's about it. I continue to go to chemo every Monday. Please continue to pray for me, especially for my left hand, which I have begun to lose the use of.
Love,
Jeanette
posted by Mark Kappe @ 6:26 PM
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