Saturday, August 13, 2011

My last chemo was July 29. My hemoglobin was so low that they decided to give me a blood transfusion. They also got me set up to start Eprex injections. The Eprex will help my hemoglobin but it takes a few weeks to kick in so we started it the same day as the transfusion. Since then, I've been feeling great; lots of energy and no problems with breathing. So it was very surprising when I showed up yesterday to start Day 1 chemo to find out that I was going to have another delay. It seems that now my platelets are too low. Just when I thought we had it all figured out with Nuepogen for white cells and Eprex for hemoglobin... I will have to wait until Monday (which is suppose to be Day 4 treatment) to start Day 1 which now screws up my schedule again but not by too much. So instead of having treatments Friday, Mondays it will be Monday, Thursdays. The biggest problem is that it messes up everyone who has offered to drive me on Fridays. Oh well, I'm sure we'll get it figured out. Anyway, that's about all I have to report!