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I wrote a week ago talking about my surgery and testings that I had to go through. Well some bad news has come after all of that. Last Monday I had a bone scan test; which thankfully was a pretty quick thing. Tuesday I started my Chemo at 7am. Originally they told me 8 hours a day but now it is 10 hours a day for labs and just setting up for everything. ACK! I was extremely anxious to learn of the results from my tests the day and week before. While I was sleeping the Doctor came in and talked to my mom and gave her the print out. Everything checked out good except for my CT scan. It showed a tumor (6.9 mm) on my Lungs. The pet scan before does not show anything under 1 cm so now we see the nodule and have no idea how long it has been there. We are so thankful we are doing the chemo now for this reason. At first we werent sure if we should do it because we were told there was nothing in my body. Well now there is. If chemo does not fix it after a certain amount of time or it gets bigger they will most likely do surgery to try and remove it. It depends where it is at and I just hope we can fix this so I can live a long healthly life.

I had to do Chemo for 3 days last week and then go back on Friday for some more tests and a white cell shot. Chemo is rough. I dont want to sugar coat anything; which is why I am creating this blog. I was so scared to have them put this large needle inside my chest where my port it. I am the type of person that has to be in control and right now everything is out of control and I dont like suprises or feeling something that I dont want to feel. I am trying to get over that because I cant control this totally. The nurse was so kind and said they will num it up with a freezing liquid so I did not feel the needle. HIGHLY recommend that! I was then connected to tons of liquids. I had a couple of bags of different chemos, but then they alternated them with liquids to help my bladder and body. I felt it all going inside of me because where the port is it goes up my neck and down my chest. I often taste most of the liquids. NASTY. They recommend that I suck on hard candies to keep the nasty taste out so I can eat and drink.

After the first day of sitting in the chair for 10 hours I was so ready to come home and sleep and eat. I ended up not being able to hold any food down and threw up my starbucks drink. They warned me that caffine would make me sick and they were correct. The second and third day of chemo got harder on my body. I was in and out of sleep from all of the nausea medicine they gave me; which is good, but it caused me to miss my daily medications and not eat or drink. This is bad. Thursday night I was feeling very ill. At that point I hadnt eaten anything or drank anything in days. I attempted a few times but my taste for everything was completely off. The weirdest part so far is I smell everything like a dog can (guess I should be the drug k-9 for the police department now!) and my taste buds are completely off. Everything that smelled and looked good before to eat or drink doesnt now. Everything is nasty. As I mentioned earlier hard candies are good and I found that jolly ranchers or suckers are a good source. After I have one of those then my taste buds seem to perk up so I can eat something.

Anyways, back to Thursday night. It was a bad night. I am not sure what happened, but the Drs think it is because of the chemo I am getting. Now there are many different types of chemo drugs out there and I am getting one of the most strongest of them. They said they are not suprised that I am not even working right now. Rough times! I am not sure how others can manage during all of this. Thankfully my family’s company is doing ok with out me there, even though I miss it a lot. So here I am going off of my train of thought again. As I was saying, I was really sick Thursday night. I felt completly nauseated and sick to my stomache. I couldnt lay or sit down so I decided to take a bath. I would then get out and try and sleep and it wasnt working so I would take another bath. I ended up taking 3 different baths within 4 hours. After Chemo on Thursday they sent me home with a pump to help my bladder since I was not getting enough fluids in me. Very important to protecte your bladder because of your kidneys. I ended up taking it out; which was not a good thing, but I was not in the state of thinking. My mom came in at 5am and I was completely out of it. Scared her and my dad pretty good. Called the Dr and they told me to go to the ER to get help, but we decided to go to the Drs office instead. Got there and they did lab work and said that it looked excellent and my fluids seemed up even though I have barely drank anything at that point. They said my loss of memory and my state of mind that I was in is part of the Chemo process. They call that Chemo brain. I also noticed that my hands and foot started turning colors before my eye. They said that is part of a Foot and Hand disease and that is also part of Chemo. I love that they dont share all of this info BEFORE you go through chemo, so I am not sure what else I am going to experience. While I was at the Dr they decided to pump me with more fluids as I was very pale and was still not thinking well to see if that would help. I was also very nauseated and had many bathroom trips so they gave me tons of medicine to try and help me out. They also took the needle out of my chest and I was so nervous for it to go in that I ended up being even more nervous with it coming out. Once they took it off we noticed that the incision from the port surgery was opening up; which is a bad thing. They called the Hospital and I had to go back for them to re-look at it. Dr said that he will glue it shut again but if it opens up again or I get a fever that we are to take the port out and put it on my left side so we dont have any sign of infection. I just hope this time it works because I dont want to go through that surgery again. WAS NOT FUN. Yesterday I was able to eat a couple of things and continually felt better over night and today.

I am hoping that I continue feeling better and can actually stay at my new apartment. I have been there a couple of times to wait for furniture to come, but have not actually stayed there. Kind of scared to I guess. Anyways, this next week I have more Drs appts and more testing and then I get to see my Foot Dr to see about mynew leg. Very excited to get that visit going. God bless you all and thank you for continuing to read my blog. If you have ANY questions please feel free to leave a comment or e-mail me at: solbergdj@hotmail.com

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