Hello all
Due to a low white blood cell count my third week of scheduled chemotherapy has been cancelled. Cycle 2 is due to continue next Wednesday. I still take antibiotics for the pneumonia. Overall my appetite is reduced; my sense of taste and smell are hyperactive and generally unpleasant. Every smell around the house and in the street seems exagerated and distorted.
Swallowing food is sometimes difficult and unpleasant and I have a feeling of a lump in my throat much of the time. Yesterday I tried a very small project in the garden...putting a door on a wood store. I was amazed at how slow and clumsy I seemed, as if my body and brain were working at half pace. BUT...eventually I suceeded!!! That was a boost to my morale! Right now it seems like a waiting game, counting away the days and weeks until the end of chemotherapy.
PSD
Friday, March 21, 2008
Week three of chemotherapy cancelled
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Peter and Lyndall at Cape Schanck, Victoria, June 2007
2 comments:
hang in there big pa, love JM
Peter, I am really really sorry that you have had to find out what pneumonia is like with this condition! Alas that was my lot too!
Hang in there - the light at the end of the tunnel is NOT necessarily a train rushing head long!
I have today created a link from my Blog to yours so that others, who may not know of you, can read your story and cheer you on as well.
Apart from the bleeding obvious, which is to do what the doctors tell you to do, as you recover from the Pneumonia DO make sure that your lung function is looked after and when you are ready, think seriously about the exercise you may need, especially if your muscles have lost some of their mass and resilience as a result of high temperatures and lack of use associated with this illness and of course the devastation the chemo therapy does to the whole system.
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