I still have little to complain about, but Thursday turned out to be an adventure! Thanks again to wonderful people taking my kids ALL day - Julie, Amy, Joyce and Savannah!
Here's the brief update. Everything seemed great Thursday morning - Austin went to school, my girls to playgroup, Anthony to work. I got up to get breakfast and fainted, followed by the chills, followed by a high fever (102). Fevers and cancer are never a good combination. My dad rushed down to take care of me. Although I felt chilled to bone and hot to the touch I was otherwise ok. The doc checked me out and thought I might possibly have pneumonia so I was sent to the hospital for chest xrays. While there I fainted again. But we got the xrays and I got home (thank goodness I wasn't driving myself). My xrays came out clear - no pneumonia. My fever was down to 99ish by the time I went to bed. Phew.
The rest of the weekend was relatively uneventful except for a bit of fatigue and nausea. But I made it to church again today so I'm feeling delighted at how well I'm doing! I think this reaction came as a result of getting a different drug on Wed which I'll only get every 4 weeks. Here's hoping that this next round of chemo won't produce a similar bad Thursday seeing as how all the doctors will be out of the office eating turkey. And I'd kind of like to enjoy my own turkey dinner too. Fingers crossed.
Holy moly. So glad you were able to get help quick. Do they have anything they can do if it really is that new stuff? Like give you something else instead?
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