Round 13
This week has been a week from you know where. I am sitting in my mother’s hospital room where she is reovering from brain surgery to remove a large bood clot after a fall face first on her concrete driveway. From the look of her hands, I don’t even think those were used to break her fall. Luckily, a neighbor found her and got her to the hospital. A major problem for the neurosurgeon is that she was on Plavis (blood thinner), which normally one has to off of 7-10 days prior to surgery, but he was happy at how well the surgery went and she is continuing to show improvement. They will be removing her breathing tube in a few munites. The left side of her face looks like a truck hit it and she has some cheek bone fractures, but the plastic surgeon’s recommendation is to leave it as is.
My mother is in the same hosptial where I am having my chemo treatments and I happened to see one of my clinical reseach nureses yesterday when I was coming back from lunch and told her some of the symptoms I was having that started on Tuesday (rapid heart beat and shortness of breath) since starting Adriamycin and Cytoxan, in addition to Avastin, last week. I got a call a little while later from her telling me that my oncologist wanted me to go to the emergency room to have it checked out, because Adriamycin can cause heart problems. Well, at least I didn’t have far to go! All tests were negative for any heart attack, but the blood tests did show my white blood count is low at 1.9. So, it dropped over 6 points in a week! And, that’s even after having a shot of Neulesta last week. The ER nurse told me he preferred that I not be in the hosptial. I understand his concern!
Updated blood counts:
WBC – 4.1 – 11.2
- 2/17 – 8.3
- 2/3 – 8.7
- 1/27 – 11.6
- 1/20 – 8.6
- 1/13 – 8.1
- 1/6 – 9.1
- 12/30 – 9.7
- 12/21 – 6.0
- 12/16 – 7.1
- 12/09 – 6.1
- 12/02 – 8.0
- 11/25 – 9.8
- 11/19 – 6.7
NE # – 1.8 – 6.4
- 2/17 – 5.3
- 2/3 – 6.0
- 1/27 – 7.8
- 1/20 – 5.5
- 1/13 – 5.2
- 1/6 – 5.8
- 12/30 – 5.5
- 12/21 – 3.7
- 12/16 – 4.3
- 12/09 – 3.4
- 12/02 – 5.3
- 11/25 – 6.2
- 11/19 – 3.6
HGB – 11.7 – 15.5
- 2/17 – 11.9
- 2/3 – 11.5
- 1/27 -12.3
- 1/20 – 11.4
- 1/13 – 11.4
- 1/6 – 11.6
- 12/30 – 11.9
- 12/21 – 11.7
- 12/16 – 11.6
- 12/09 – 11.6
- 12/02 – 11.6
- 11/25 – 11.9
- 11/19 – 11.7
PLT – > 100
- 2/17 – 431
- 2/3 – 325
- 1/27 -379
- 1/20 – 443
- 1/13 – 370
- 1/6 – 320
- 12/30 – 433
- 12/21 – 387
- 12/16 – 439
- 12/09 – 367
- 12/02 – 382
- 11/25 – 331
- 11/19 – 309
One Response to “Round 13”
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Donna,
I was just checking up on you and… I’m sorry to hear you have even more to handle with your Mom falling…I pray that she recovers quickly. I’ve been following your progress on this blog, and admire your courage and tenacity! Your writing is confident, and very informative to me. Please continue to keep up the good fight!
Love, Peter
PS.I wonder if my Mom knows about Mrs. B? I’ll try to suss it out.