A couple of notable things:
1. Yesterday, at 1pm, when I sat for "hydration", my BP was 120/75. My first nearly normal reading in weeks. It was again 130ish over 90ish this morning immediately after radiation...and that "mask".
2. Today's radiation included a visit with my Radiation Oncologist. Seems I've lost quite a bit of weight in my neck since the machine was programmed and we'll need to reprogram the machine so that the bulk of the treatment is hitting the target areas. With my face thinning, right now they're hitting too much epidermis -- which is not desired. Adjustments will be made in the next few days, I guess.
3. The weight problem follows from nausea -- which I have really not been able to kick. So,....Chemo leads to nausea leads to lack of appetite and inability to sleep. Vicious cycle. Today he told me to change the pattern of my nausea meds - which I've done. Let's hope this breaks the cycle. I have managed to eat 3 times today -- which is way more than the past 3 days. Who knew eating would be hard this early on -- and not from pain associated with eating -- just overwhelming nausea. It's like I took a boat into the ocean without dramamine and a huge storm blew up and has stayed for 4 days....it is that bad.
Radiation tomorrow morning then I get a weekend off -- hopefully to recuperate a bit and get back on top of this!
Rich,
ReplyDeleteAs my little brother I should warn you: You do NOT want to "lick" your nausea! Its nasty.
I'm beginning to get a better picture of what mom went through.
Love,
Gar
Oh sure, edit your post to remove the word "lick" making me look like a dolt.
ReplyDeleteDidn't edit. And....yeah, I had no idea how difficult this was for mom. Joyce powered through quite a few long phone calls with docs / pharma's over the weekend. She got me some nystatin for "thrush" which had more or less enveloped my tongue. Hero. I didn't even know I had the problem -- but she worked her "network" and figured out that there was a treatable problem. God bless.
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