There really are two time lines for the current chemo treatment. The first is the one for the Cisplatin that is delivered on day one and then the second is for the 5FU that is delivered over the next 4 days via the PICC line. For the Cisplatin this weekend was days 6 and 7. For the 5FU this weekend was really the start of days 1 and 2.
The PICC line came out without a hitch on Friday. They measure the line after they take it out to make sure none was left in. (I really don't want to think about what they would do to try to retrieve a part of the line if that happened. :-) ) So for now I am a little bit less a part of the Borg.
The weekend was a bit rough. One of the side effects of 5FU is mouth sores. For some reason it seems that all of the treatment plans I am on tend to impact the mouth. I wonder if they are trying to tell me something...
In addition to the mouth sores it appears that the anti nausea medicine isn't working as well with this set of chemo drugs. The weekend was pretty much spent trying to manage the mucus issue that seemed to kick into high gear this weekend, making sure I got enough nutrition and water despite throwing up every now and then and dealing with the mouth sores. This morning I am going to put a call into the medical oncologist to see what else we can do to help manage the nausea. For now I have started keeping track of the times when I do throw up to see if it correlates with certain drugs, feedings or anything else. So far nothing is jumping out at me as the culprit.
While the weekend was a bit rough I tend to view it as just another sign that the treatment is working. If my healthy "good" cells are impacted imagine what the remaining cancer cells must be going through. Fortunately there are only two more chemo treatments and then I am done. Hopefully the doctors will be able to come up with something that will contain the nausea a bit better.
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