Hi, well for the past week I have just been increasingly nauseated and tired. It has been a month since we stopped treatment so I decided to try and fix a few parts.
First of all I went to my family doctor with the idea of getting a cortisone shot for my knee. Last winter I had a plan to get an artificial knee, but that is not something I want to give any of my time to, so I got a cortisone shot...I don't think it is going to work, but there is another option. My knee still hurts...so...about ten years ago I had sinvisc injected in my knee....three shots a couple of weeks apart and they cost over $500 ten years ago, but it worked for ten years! So may do it again. While I was in my family doctor's office we talked about the idea that I may have depression symptoms. I agreed and so I am going to start taking Zoloft. Haven't yet but I have it at home to start when i am ready to.
That afternoon I went to the eye doctor...Seems like I just can't clean my glasses enough lately. Well of course I have cataracts.....Now I'm not going to have those removed,but I do have a new prescription for some better lens....
Today I got up and took my daily meds and promptly vomited them into the sink...so I called my doctor who is out of town and made an appointment to see one of the other oncologist.
I have really been feeling shitty all week, chills,exhaustion,nausea,can't force food down....
Today he did blood work,urinalysis,poked around the abdomen, (I've been afraid it might be the pancreas or liver, but he didn't think so. I have not lost any weight, temp. 97.6, oxygenation at 93%, BP 112/76...I mean I am a healthy specimen, except for the nausea......So he ordered zofran,which is a med that can melt in you mouth and stop the nausea and he increased decadron from 0.5mg a day to 8.00mg a day for the weekend. He thinks it is the PCI leftover, which means prophylactic cranial irradiation....brain radiation......
At any rate, that is why no wise and wonderful words have emanated from this blog...I've been in bed or in the recliner, not giving a shit.....BUT I WILL AGAIN.
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