2009-Sep-17, Thursday
Kris' scalp/hair has been more and more irritated as time goes on. We discussed cutting her hair off in the near future, sometime fairly soon after Chemo Friday.
2009-Sep-18, Friday
Chemo. Appointment is 1045 and will take about 6 hours, so we got breakfast at the Original Pancake House then headed out to the clinic. Kris' I & R is 2.4 which is perfect so we're leaving her Warfarin dosage alone. Met an interesting soul at the clinic during infusion who likes Irish folk, as well as other more eclectic music, as much as we do. One point of note is that the nurse 'pushed' one of the anti-nausea drugs rather than administering it by drip. Ironically this has the effect of making Kris quite nauseous as it was too rapid a delivery. Other than this, things went quite a bit better this time than last time.
2009-Sep-19, Saturday
Kris decided that we'd do the buzz today. This time we handled it ourselves. Took us a bit to get our clippers to work the way we wanted, and we decided to go so far as to shave but, in the end everything looks great! Yes, that's right, I have no problems at all with bald women. :)
2009-Sep-20, Sunday
Towards the afternoon, Kris began feeling a bit run down. This is early but in keeping with normal Chemo reactions.
2009-Sep-21, Monday
Kris is still run down and starting to feel achy. Enough that she waited long enough to take the Darvocet she has for pain. Other than this her spirit is up and she even worked a bit today. Note: I am very appreciative of her work support structure for helping her through times like these. I can't go into detail but her manager, among others, have done a lot to help Kris work through this with minimal stress and I wanted to say thank you to those co-workers for doing so.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Kris, Dave and the Lumps: Round 3, Followup with Dr. Moran for Chemo #1
2009-Sep-8, Tuesday
Met with Dr. Moran. We catalogued the issues we saw with the first round of Chemo: Headache and tiredness the day of, Achy (pain) and run down 3-5 days later, buzzing in fingertips, white tongue 2 days later (Kris noticed this because she had an odd taste in her mouth, when she looked in the mirror, her tongue was sort of 'white' and she was able to brush off what was apparently dead skin), and most recently some minor sores on her tongue. For the sores he gave us a prescription for a mouth wash that helps with them. He said that for the achiness 3-5 days after the infusion, it was ok for her to take the Darvocet she was prescribed for pain after surgery. The rest is pretty much expected or understood (the problems the day of we think were just heat from sitting directly in the sunlight from the window during the 6 hour infusion). Kris' I&R was 3.0 today after they adjusted the dose to 3.5 mg of Warfarin each day. He wants her to go back to 3 mg each day to try and titrate it back to 2-ish (it was 1.4 the last time). Long and short is that things are proceeding nicely, or at least 'as expected' and we will just keep on keeping on.
Met with Dr. Moran. We catalogued the issues we saw with the first round of Chemo: Headache and tiredness the day of, Achy (pain) and run down 3-5 days later, buzzing in fingertips, white tongue 2 days later (Kris noticed this because she had an odd taste in her mouth, when she looked in the mirror, her tongue was sort of 'white' and she was able to brush off what was apparently dead skin), and most recently some minor sores on her tongue. For the sores he gave us a prescription for a mouth wash that helps with them. He said that for the achiness 3-5 days after the infusion, it was ok for her to take the Darvocet she was prescribed for pain after surgery. The rest is pretty much expected or understood (the problems the day of we think were just heat from sitting directly in the sunlight from the window during the 6 hour infusion). Kris' I&R was 3.0 today after they adjusted the dose to 3.5 mg of Warfarin each day. He wants her to go back to 3 mg each day to try and titrate it back to 2-ish (it was 1.4 the last time). Long and short is that things are proceeding nicely, or at least 'as expected' and we will just keep on keeping on.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Kris, Dave and the Lumps: Round 3, post Chemo 1
2009-Aug-31, Monday
Kris was back at work and things were ok over the weekend. However, towards the end of the day she started feeling achy, rundown and had a headache. Her chemotherapy drugs do advertise that you may get flu like symptoms about 3 days after the infusion so, this was expected, though not this late.
2009-Sep-1, Tuesday
Achy and rundown feelings are worse and she can barely wait long enough to take her Tylenol for her headaches. She's only allowed the Tylenol as the other medicines thin blood and she's on blood thinners for her port. When she went to bed, she decided to take a Darvocet left over from her surgery to help with the pain and allow her to sleep.
2009-Sep-2, Wednesday
Pain is still there but much reduced. She was not nearly as... closed is the best description I can give. That look folks get when they are in pain and trying to function, brow furrowed, etc. She was in brighter spirits and able to go longer without the Tylenol. Looks like we are on the mend.
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