April 16, 2009

• Posted by Stephanie 10:00pm CST from the apartment Houston, TX

  Dear Platelets—I would like to thank you for finally cooperating enough for me to get chemo yesterday. I know you have taken multiple beatings over the last three and a half years, and though you sometimes take your own sweet time getting back up into range, you manage to get there nonetheless. So here’s to you, platelets. Cheers.

  As the ode to my platelets above clearly states, my platelets were up to 113 yesterday, and I was finally able to have what is hopefully my last round of chemo. After a long eight hours at the hospital, mom and I headed back to the apartment where we proceeded to be bums the rest of the day. I didn’t feel too terrible after the infusion—a little nauseous (hooray for phenergan), and I had this weird tingling sensation across my face and ears. Thankfully, that was gone when I woke up this morning.

  Haven’t done much today—had bloodwork this morning, took a walk this afternoon, and went out for Hank's banana pudding ice cream. That’s good stuff, let me tell you. Comes with vanilla wafers right in it. Yum. Anyway, my MTX level is coming down nicely. It was 1499 right after the infusion yesterday, and is already down to 15.31 today. I’m sure that has a lot to do with the four liters of fluid I’m drinking everyday (and yes, I do feel like I’m going to float away). I’m hoping to clear the methotrexate sometime this weekend. The sooner, the better—then I don’t have to keep peeing into a plastic hat and measuring the PH every dang half hour. It’s as annoying as you would imagine it to be.

  That’s about it from down here. Sorry I’m not more exciting today. I’m pretty tired. I’m sure it wouldn’t be a bad idea for me to get to bed now, so I think that’s what I’ll do. Enjoy the end of the week everyone. Nighty night.

  --Steph

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