Today we had a doctors appointment at 930am which we were prompt to and got taken fairly quickly. We met today with just the doctor's nurse who successfully flushed both of my catheter lines and drew my labwork. Everything checked out, with my Hemoglobin holding strong at 8.3 from the transfusion just yesterday (<8.0 class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Creatinin function came down a bit more from yesterday to 1.9. I am starting to notice a bit more neuropathy in my hands and feet. This is numbness and tingling that kind of comes along with the territory of chemotherapy. The other common side effect which I am starting to notice more is a constant ringing in my ears. I will get my hearing tested prior to the second high dose chemotherapy set for June 5th.
Even with everything going according to schedule and not needing any transfusions we left the doctors office after 1pm. We ran into Nick Pestritto and his Mom at the doctors office where he too had an appointment for 11am. Nick is the individual in the same program as myself who is from South New Jersey and received his initial treatment at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philly. This is the same place where I had my surgery last November. Prompt and on-time he sent me an email later in the day that they had them waiting for hours for his lab results and when they got them back and he needed to be transfused he got to the infusion room only for them to tell him it was too late in the day to transfuse, so he said that they had to go over to urgent care unit at the hospital and have it done, he said that they were not likely to get back to their room prior to 10pm. Very frustrating to say the least.
Our afternoon consisted of Jamie running to the grocery store to pick up some things and I hung around the room and did a load of laundry while watching the Dog Whisperer, Cesar Milan. It made me think of Roy back in Pottstown with his adopted family. We are grateful to Dave, Barb, and Ashley for their help in watching Roy while we're up here getting treated. Dave, I don't know who is the Dog Whisperer of your family you or Barb...haha.
Anyway, just relaxing this evening watching Cavs vs Magic. No appointments on the schedule for tomorrow so will be resting at the Hope Lodge. Just finished my first book here, "Always Looking Up", by Michael J. Fox, I'd recommend it to anyone. A pretty good read and not too long at 275 pages. I hate to say my attention span doesn't last much beyond 300 pages without pictures.
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